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Main news:   1. Dialogue forms in web-reports - now end-users can control the internet/intranet reports building (Web forms + Win forms and Professional Editions).   2. Now you can insert Map objects to a report. (Win Forms Edition and higher)   3. Save prepared reports in clouds (Win Forms Edition and higher).   Full list of news in version 2013.1 --------------- + added dialogs in WebReport (some controls and features are in development now) + added Map object + added map editor in designer + added save in cloud Dropbox from preview + added save in cloud SkyDrive from preview + added AJAX in WebReport + added new customizable toolbar in WebReport + added AdjustSpannedCellsWidth property in Matrix and Table objects + added Wysiwyg property in Word 2007 export + added PrintOn.SinglePage to the PrintOn property (doublepass must be enabled) + added anchors support in the PDF export + added Armenian localization + added Label property to chart series - fixed bug when saving report to .cs/.vb file - fixed drag&drop bug in the code editor - fixed bug in the TXT export - fixed bug in the Word 2007 export in layer mode - fixed bug with number format in Excel exports - fixed bug in VB.Net code generator   And that's not all - we plan to add more features soon. Check our daily builds.   It is good time for order, upgrade or prolongation of FastReport.NET

What's news in our crossplatform reporting tool?   Use the opportunity to publish reports on the web - version FastReport.Mono 2013 allows to use the report generator conjunctly with  the Apache web server. You'll find the example of WEB reporting in the folder "Demos/C#/Web".   Do not limit yourself by using only the classic bar codes. In version FastReport.Mono 2013 added support of two-dimensional bar  code - QR-code. Using the QR-code allows to increase up to 100 times the amount of encoded information over traditional barcodes.   - added WEB reporting server - improved look of navigator of generated HTML documents - added "Data Only" property to Xlsx export (Excel 2007 and later version) - added new barcode - QR-code - improved look of RichText object - fixed bug in BusinessObjects data source - improved logic of bands placement - optimization of two-pass report generation - added CC field to the E-mail client - added WYSIWYG  property to Excel 2007 export - memory optimization of big blob data - many minor fixes

CodeRage 7 - Embarcadero online conference for C++ developers in connection with 64 bit C++ Builder release.    Join to online conference CodeRage7 from 6am to 5 pm PST December 10-12   Embarcadero and company partners will present the latest developments for C++  All people can see the process of creation an application on life demos.   Why you need participate in CodeRage?   * In first day December 10. Bjarne Stroustrup (creator and developer C++ programming language) and David Intersimone will discuss about new C++11 standard and popularity C++ language in software market.    * Michael Philippenko CEO of Fast Reports Inc. will tell about reporting in C++ application for Windows and Mac OSX   * Vsevolod Leonov will present migration ways from client-server architecture to Multitier architecture.  

We are pleased to release a new version of FastReport VCL for Embarcadero RAD Studio XE. FastReport VCL 4.13 officially supports the latest version, XE3, of RAD Studio. You can download a stable version from your customer panel for free. Support for Lazarus Beta is included in FastReport Professional Edition and above. The current version allows previewing, printing and report templates under Windows and Linux platforms (qt).   Other changes: + published Quality property of TfrxPDFExport object + published UseMAPI property of TfrxExportMail object + published PictureType property  in ODF export - fixed compatibility with FastReport FMX installed in the same IDE. This version can co-exist with FastReport FMX installed in the IDE - fixed bug with expressions in RichEdit - fixed bug in multi-column reports - fixed exception in the report designer - fixed bug with URLs in Open Document Text and Open Document  Spreadsheet exports - fixed format string in XLS OLE export - fixed format string in XLS BIFF8 export - fixed output of check boxes on highlighted lines in PDF export - fixed bug with PDF anchors - fixed bug when using two or more macros in memo - other minor bug fixes

  Video of our session on Delphi CodeRage 7   And you can still buy licencesfor our report generators for Embarcadero Delphi / C++Builder with the CodeRage discount Both FastReport VCL and FMX support C++Builder - take part in our session at the CodeRage 7 C++ Conference on 11th December

How to use FastReports reporting on 64-bit platforms. A new article in our blog. And yes, we know about 64-bit Delphi and C++Builder (which should be available very soon). FastReport VCL supports them.

FastReport FMX now supports FireMonkey 2 (Embarcadero RAD Studio XE3, Delphi XE3) as well as the previous version of FireMonkey (Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2, Delphi XE2).  We have fixed a series of bugs and improved the speed and stability of reporting on Windows and on Mac OS X.For example – the bug with setting up FastReport VCL and FastReport FMX in the same IDE. You also need to download the current build of FastReport VCL from your customer panel. All users of FastReport FMX beta can download the release for free and all users of FastReport VCL can purchase it with a discount via their customer panel.