May 27, 2013

Report generator in Visual Studio Express Edition

Visual Studio Express Edition by Microsoft is a popular software development enveronment. It is popular also because it is free. By the way this tool as all that is free has some lacks. In particular complexities with using some add-onces, third party components.

For example many popular component-packs for .NET have reporting tools in set. Often they use developers environment of Visual Studio (fully or partially) as the visual report development environment. But such way is impossible in Express Edition.

FastReport .NET uses another approach. There are own fully independent report designer which can be called from application (from Winforms Edition and higher). That is Visual Studioàs envirinment does not need for visual design of reports. read more...

November 26, 2025

Black Friday: 3 days to get report generators with a 35% discount
A unique opportunity until November 28 to purchase FastReport VCL, FastReport .NET, and FastReport Desktop with a 35% discount. If you have postponed your purchase or upgrade, now is the best moment.
November 10, 2025

New data-handling capabilities in FastReport VCL Ultimate
With the 2026.1 release, the Ultimate VCL subscription has become even more valuable. All license owners now receive the new FastGrid library and the ability to create reports using FastReport Online Designer.
November 10, 2025

Release of Version 2026.1 for FastReport Online Designer
In version 2026.1 of FastReport Online Designer, there is a report validator, new components and controls for .NET and VCL solutions, redesigned the main toolbar, improved the IntelliSense system.
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