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...

April 09, 2026

Version 2026.2 for FastReport .NET is Now Available
In version 2026.2 for FastReport .NET has added 9 form options for QR code modules, a plugin for connecting to Google Sheets, and an option for embedding fonts when exporting to MS Word.
March 26, 2026

FastReport products support the latest version of RAD Studio — 13.1 Florence
Starting from version 2026.1.7, FastReport products for Delphi support the most up-to-date version of the development environment — RAD Studio 13.1.
March 23, 2026

The Latest FastReport Version: 50% Discount on Updates
From March 23 to April 6, 2026, a special offer is available for customers with expired licenses. Report generators FastReport .NET and FastReport VCL with a 50% discount.
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