Pioneering .NET Reporting Tool with Many Firsts
ActiveReports introduced a number of technologies to .NET
developers all over the world for the very first time, including the first
Visual Basic report builder, the first Visual Studio report designer, the
first code-behind reporting model, the first end-user report designer and
finally, the first reporting tool with royalty-free deployment.
Quality Tested by Tens of Thousands of Users
More than a decade ago, ActiveReports became the first
reporting tool to work inside the Visual Basic IDE. Since then, the COM
version — and now the .NET version — have not only been used by tens of
thousands of developers, but also have become one of the only international
reporting tools to be successfully localized, sold, and supported in Japan
and Europe. Bottom line: ActiveReports is a proven reporting technology that
just works right every time — even those features that are deemed "advanced"
by our competition.
Rich Collection of Reporting Tools
When you buy ActiveReports, you get access to a complete set
of .NET reporting tools that have been refined based on over a decade of
customer feedback and the combined reporting experience of over 50,000
developers worldwide. These include upgrade tools, MS Access and other
report converters, the Visual Studio report designer, the end-user report
designer, charts, bar codes, export plug-ins and the .NET reporting SDK.
Almost Unlimited Report Customization
ActiveReports is the world's most flexible reporting tool for
.NET. It offers an extensive code-behind, event-based API for report
creation, plus the ability to hook into pretty much any reporting behavior
at run time. Developers have long used ActiveReports to embed advanced
reporting features into their applications — features that would otherwise
be considered impossible to achieve. Read our case studies to discover how
ActiveReports has turned reporting into a competitive advantage for our
clients.
Intuitive Visual Studio Report Designer
ActiveReports was the world's first reporting tool that
offered an easy-to-use report designer tightly integrated with Visual Studio
— integration that began with Visual Basic over a decade ago and continues
with Visual Studio 2010 today. The report designer also supports C# and
third-party hosting controls and offers an extensive programming model for
creating and customizing reports at run-time.
Broad Data Binding Support
ActiveReports allows you to bind reports to a variety of data
sources — including run-time unbound data — and also allows you to change
data source properties to provide ad-hoc reporting. It supports OLEDB; XML;
.NET SQL clients; .NET collections such as data sets, data views, and data
tables; and any entity that supports the iList interface.
Variety of Export Formats
ActiveReports allows you to export your reports into a
variety of formats, including .PDF, HTML, .MHT, .RTF, Excel (.XLS), plain
text (.TXT), comma-separated values (*.CSV), and .TIFF.
Easy-to-Use End-User Reporting Tools
ActiveReports allows you to host the report designer in your
application and distribute it royalty free. It also allows end-users to edit
reports and to save and load report layouts. In addition, it allows you to
monitor and control the design environment and customize the report's look
and feel to meet the needs of your end users.
World Class Reporting Performance and Quality
If you admired ActiveReports for its world-class quality and
speed with over 50,000 users worldwide, you will love version 6 even more.
The new version contains a number of improvements to enhance the performance
and quality of the reporting engine, making it better, faster and smarter
than ever before.
Rich Product and Public Knowledgebase
When you buy ActiveReports and related products, you are
getting a market leader. You are getting the confidence of knowing that for
the last decade, over 50,000 developers have adopted and enriched the
product with their experience and skills and have contributed to a global
online knowledge base in the form of innumerable forum discussions,
articles, comparisons, blogs and emails.
Royalty-Free Deployment
The ActiveReports .NET reporting tool features flexible,
royalty-free distribution. You can easily distribute it using .NET file copy
techniques, or you can compile it into your application. And you can forget
about calculating concurrent user fees or any of the countless ways that you
are hit up for more money when you try to deploy other reporting tools.