Do you store COVID-19 data in Excel? Can the report show not all data? Here - https://uk.news.yahoo.com/missing-coronavirus-tests-glitch-large-excel-spreadsheet-file-095054235.html - you can read a wonderful story about how almost 16,000 cases of Covid-19 infection were left out in the UK becaus...

On the Data protection day, we decided to prepare an article about the PDF documents protection. PDF has become one of the world standards today; it’s a good idea to understand how to protect it. From what do you need to protect a PDF document? From unauthorized editing. From unauthoriz...

Speaking of text editors, we immediately present coryphaeus as Microsoft Word, which for many years has occupied a pedestal among office applications. And although its first version appeared in 1986 for the IBM platform, it gained real popularity in the nineties already among Windows users. Like all...

Tables. For centuries, they have been used to present similar data for record-keeping, counting amounts, and data analysis. For a long time, tables have been a constant tool in accounting and statistics. And it was not until the end of the 20th century that they acquired a completely different quali...

In FastReport 2020.1 we have added the ability to change export parameters. To do this, you must subscribe to the ExportParameters event in WebReport.Report. Until now the FastReport.Net library did not provide access to the export parameters. Or rather, it did, but only to some of the parameters, ...

In FastReport 2019.4 added the ability to subscribe to PreviewControl.OnPrint and PreviewControl.OnExport events, which are called directly when the corresponding buttons are pressed. When viewing a report, a viewer is called with a toolbar that has elements such as a print button and a drop-down l...

Speaking of the .Net framework, we usually imagine the #C programming language. Simply because the share of C# programmers is overwhelming. But we should not forget about other languages as well. For example, a user of the report generator from Stimulsoft wants to create a report from the applicatio...

Sometimes you need to update the report, for example if you input a new variable value, or if you want to display another report in the same Web report object at all. This usually updates the entire view (we're talking about MVC applications) for the sub-set. But it would be much better if you updat...

For decades, the FastReport and FastCube libraries have been helping to organize fast reporting and powerful multidimensional analytics in various applications and industries. Particularly in Medicine. Dozens of development companies from all over the world (China, Africa, USA, Europe) responded to...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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, ...

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...

Lately many countries have been digitizing payment processes. In other words, they convert existing payments to digital format. The most common way to automate payments is to use QR codes that are easily read by smartphones. The ability to encode a sufficiently large amount of information, high dama...