Few believed in the success of the new open-source ASP.Net Core framework from Microsoft. It’s all because of the low popularity of the previous ASP.Net platform. However, very soon everyone appreciated the advantages of the new cross-platform framework. Nowadays ASP.Net Core occupies a high p...

Applications built in Delphi are less common than, for example, those built in C #. These programming languages are from different times. However, even nowadays Delphi and VCL can complete some of the modern tasks. There are many free and commercial libraries that can modernize even old applications...

The Delphi programming language, or Turbo Pascal, has become a starting point for many developers. Thanks to the simple and clear syntax and the ability to write in a procedural style, it turned out to be very easy to learn. Many would compare it with Visual Basic, but at the peak of its popularity ...

I guess every WinForms developer came across the idea that the standard form controls look too unitary and that it would be nice to bring more interesting design to the application. So, especially for such cases when we need a special design, Microsoft created a special library – WPF (Windows ...

Many report developers had situations when they needed to add a page that had already been implemented in another report. And you had to rework an existing report - add a new page, data sources. Not everyone knows that you can simply merge reports when they are displayed. The user of Stimulsoft rep...

By default, FastReport.Net allows you to send e-mails with an attached report file in one of the available export formats. However, it is sometimes necessary to include the report content in the body of the email. This feature may be useful if you intend to discuss the report content in corresponden...

As for Delphi applications, we understand that we are talking about applications implemented in VCL (Visual Component Library) for the Windows operating system. The popularity of Delphi VCL slightly faded with the advent of the C and .Net platform but there are lots of Delphi developers all around t...

Data sources do not always contain data. And when you build reports, even if the data source is empty, the page will be created, at least with headlines. On report generator forums, you can find questions from users about how to hide blank pages: "Please tell me how to skip (not print) a blank pag...

Most advanced report generators let us generate reports for web applications. When displaying reports to users, consider the ability to navigate on their web pages, send to print, export to any format, and other functions. This is usually a special toolbar in the report output window. Quite often, ...

Report designer is replete with lots of features that many users do not use. Sometimes the variety of icons and menus only distracts. Therefore, many users would like to have a simplified version of the report designer with only the functions they need. This, the report designer can be customized to...