Stimulsoft Designer WinForm 2020.5.1
Stimulsoft Designer WinForm 2020.5.1
Stimulsoft Reports.Net is a multi-functional and fully customizable reporting tool designed to work in Windows Forms applications. Using our product in your application, you can create, edit, view, export, and print reports of almost any complexity, spending a minimum of efforts.
The structure of the product includes a powerful, but at the same time simple and easy to use report designer and interactive report viewer. Besides, the product contains a fully functional Web report viewer for the ASP.NET platform.
Ultimate functionality
When designing Stimulsoft Reports.Net, we tried to make the engine of the report generator very fast, multifunctional, and flexible. Thanks to the customers’ suggestions and clients’ requests, our reporting tool corresponds to what the customer wishes. A genuinely vast set of components and many options for customizing them are available for creating reports. Texts and expressions with RichText and HTML support, various types of images, more than 40 types of charts and graphs, more than 30 types of bar-codes, cross-tabs, maps, indicators, etc. Intuitive wizards will simplify the configuration of the rich functionality of the components in reports. Lots of helpful resources, such as manuals, samples, videos with various with various approaches to creating and editing reports will help you get started with Stimulsoft Reports quickly.
Despite the results achieved, we are not going to stop and continue to improve the report writer with each new version of the product!
Report Designer
We believe that the report designer should be quick and easy-to-use because the speed of creating reports depends on this. Stimulsoft Reports.Net includes the designer with the characteristics described above! Convenient, modern user interface familiar to everyone. It supports for more than 40 languages, various wizards for creating reports and settings for report components – this and much more allows you to start creating reports immediately.
For the Stimulsoft Reports.Net product, the report designer is available in two versions - as a component for integration into projects which use the WinForms platform and a ready-made application for creating and editing reports on the computer of a developer, which is supported for Windows and macOS systems.
Data for Reports
Our product supports lots of ways to connect data to a report using both the report designer functionality and code. We offer a vast list of supported data servers – MS SQL, Oracle, Firebird, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and others. We support all standard types of ADO.NET, OData protocol, multi-level business objects. You can get data from XML, JSON, Excel, and other files.
View reports
Viewing a ready report is no less important as creating and designing it. The report viewer should be fast, convenient, and fully customizable. The report viewer is that very tool the end-users typically work. Our report viewer meets all of the above criteria. The component supports various modes for viewing reports, search, printing, exporting to more than 25 file formats, work with report parameters, interactivity, multi-level drill-down, and much more other features are provided. These features also apply to the Web component for ASP.NET, which is part of the product as well.
Integration
Stimulsoft Reports.Net is designed to integrate all the features of the reporting tool into WinForms projects. Using our components, you can create, edit, and view reports in your application. If necessary, any actions on the report can be performed using C#/VB.NET code. For tighter integration, there are many properties and events of both components, and the report writer itself. A fully functional component for viewing reports in an ASP.NET application is available.
We tried to make product integration in the project as simple as possible. You should install the necessary package from the NuGet repository, or download the package from our website to your computer and add the libraries required for the project. No additional modules and particular extensions are needed. All you need, the product already has. The product supports .NET Framework 4.5 or higher, or .NET Core 3.0 or higher.
Compatibility
Stimulsoft Reports.Net is the integral part of the Stimulsoft platform. Reports created in our other products will work in Stimulsoft Reports.Net and vice versa. You can create reports on a computer and continue editing them in the cloud with the help of the online designer. We have tried to ensure the compatibility of the reports, to the extent possible for a particular technology. Moreover, we offer tools for importing reports from files of other popular reporting systems into our universal internal format.
Best choice
Stimulsoft Reports.Net is, no doubt a powerful and convenient reporting tool for Windows Forms and ASP.NET platforms. High development speed, excellent performance, a lot of examples, and reporting methods allows you to get started right away. Look at the many specially selected reports in the Demo application, try to create your ones and make sure that this is exactly the solution you need.
Stimulsoft Ultimate 2020.5.1
New Features:
An ability to specify an expression for the Enabled and Printable properties of components.
Support for displaying descriptions when hovering the cursor was added for graphical objects of the Points type on the "Online Map" element of the GIS type.
The ability to set the color and size of various graphic objects on the "Online Map" element of the GIS type was added.
Support for the "Indicator" style for the "Sparkline" component in the report was added.
An ability to use the Image element together with general dashboard filters is added.
An ability to use an expression is added for Text, Image, ZipCode, and other components.
An expression can be specified for the DockStyle, HorAlignment, VertAlignment, and ImageRotation properties.
Added support for .NET 5.0 RC1 framework for WinForms and WPF components.
A button to change the direction of the summary columns in the "Pivot Table" element of the dashboard.
The "Image Resolution Mode" option when exportingba report to the PDF file.
An expression can be used for ComponentStyle, EvenStyle, and OddStyle properties.
The new barcode - GS1-128 is added.
Support for expressions in properties such as "Brush", "Alignment", and "Color" for report components was added.
Added the "Labels" property group for the "Gauge" element in the dashboard.
The new "Strips" editor is added in the "Chart" component.
A new "Constant Lines" editor for the "Chart" component in reports and dashboards.
The "Group" property was added for the "Text" element in dashboards.
The "Bubbles" type for the columns of the "Table" element in dashboards was added.
An algorithm for protecting against script injection is added in the editor of the "Text" component.
Added the ability to use data columns in the "Image" element of the dashboard.
Support for expression for the "Enabled" and "Printable" properties of report components.
Support for expressions for the "Brush" and "Text Brush" properties of report components was added.
Added support for expressions for the Component Style property. For the "Data" band, the expression can also be used in the "Even Style" and "Odd Style" properties.
The ability to publish the report and dashboard to social networks Twitter and Facebook is added.
The new barcode - GS1-128 is added.
Improved security for working with XML templates. The DTD / DOCTYPE header is now ignored, which may have contained unsafe content.
Support for exporting "Bubbles" cells of the "Table" element in dashboards.
The algorithm for exporting a report to a PDF file was optimized. Now, the "Language" tag of the PDF file is filled from the "Culture" property of the report.
The third overload for the ToCurrencyWordsPt function is added.
Added support for the new format specification - ZUGFeRD v2.1.
The new StiOptions.Engine.OrdinalStringComparison option was added. It is used to enable byte string comparison mode when sorting.
Added support for custom functions in dashboards.
Added the functionality to localize the values that are returned when using the MonthIdent() function. The localization of the returned values depends on the value of the Culture property of the report.
The Format() fucntion is added.
Support for *.WKT files as a data source for the "Online map" element of the GIS type.
An ability to specify custom colors in the sparkline column of the table element.
The new Bubble column is added to the table element.
The Group property is added to the Text element.
Support for GeoJSON files as a data source for the "Online Map" element of the GIS type is added.
Enhancements:
Now the minimum required version of Java is 1.7.
Images loading from the data column in the image element through the hyperlink option is added.
The ability to search in Russian is available in the map selection window. The search algorithm in the editor of the "Regional map" element and the "Maps" component was updated. Now the search for the required type of a map is carried out with the support of the Russian language.
Updated the order of options in the property panel in WPF V1 and WPF V2 report designers.
Displaying styles for "Indicator" and "Progress" elements on the properties panel in the report designer.
Sets the right sequence after a copy-paste operation.
The error with repeated requesting data when using variables with a request to select or enter values by the user was fixed.
Improved speed of loading reports and dashboards that are designed using the Data Transformation.
The module for Firebird data sources was fixed.
Optimized and splitted into separate script files - report engive, charts, maps, exports, import from *.xlsx files. Now you can only use required parts of the software.
The "Geometry" element editor is adapted to scale the system up to 150%.
The Menu action replaced by the Save action in the dashboard viewer.
SVG library was moved from svg-salamander to Apache Batik.
Fixed Bugs:
Some issues with dependent variables in the Web viewer were fixed.
Some issues when processing a text component with calculations were fixed.
The displaying of "Report Checker" control buttons at the high resolution of the screen was fixed.
The image transparency error when exporting a report to a PDF file was fixed.
Some issues with the TextFormat property editor in the Style designer.
Some issues with the full screen function in the ribbon report viewer.
An issue with visibility of Retrieve button in the Data Source editor.
An issues with a variable with selection mode set to Nothing.
Fixed an issue with putting date when viewing a report or dashboard for values of a variable of the "List" type.
Loading of report files of the *.mrt (JSON) type into WPF designer and report viewer was fixed.
Added support for the "Indicator" style for the "Sparkline" component in the report.
The issue with highlighting of some components in the WPF V1 report designer was fixed.
Fixed moving of Zip Code and Check Box components in the WPF V1 report designer.
An issue with parsing GeoJSON data when creating a GIS data source.
Optimization of WinForms (.NET Core) windows of the report designer for different zoom values in the operating system.
The algorithm for calculating the autorange for values greater than 10M in the "Gauge" element was fixed.
A bug with switching filters in dashboards was fixed.
Some issues for the "Sparklines" columns in the "Table" element of the dashboard was added.
A bug with changing the background color when conditionally formatting report components was fixed.
A bug with the "Pivot Table" element of the dashboard with empty data was fixed.
A bug when changing the cell type in the "Table" component is fixed.
Exporting the background color for the Sparkline component is fixed.
Some errors when exporting the "Table" element in dashboards were fixed.
Optimized the export to PDF algorithm for the Sparkline component. Now, sparklines are exported as primitives.
The algorithm of exporting for QR barcode images when converting a report to Word and Excel files.
The error processing the value of the "Fully convert expression" property for the RichText component in the WinForms (.NET Core) report designer.
Cache storage path changed. The Stimulsoft folder is now the root for the cache folders.
The error in processing the 'Report Icon' property in the "Compilation" mode was fixed.
The export of background color for cells of the "Indicator" type in the "Table" element of the dashboard was fixed.
The error with report generation was fixed.
Fixed some bugs in the report designer.
The export of "Zip Code" and "Text in Cells" components taking into account the scale value of the operating system was fixed.
Some bugs with handling the "Grow to Height" and "Dock Style" properties of report components.
The error processing image opacity when exporting to PDF file is fixed.
A error of a connection that was created using columns with the DateTime data type.
A bug with viewing a query when editing a PostgreSQL data source was fixed.
The error with multilevel conditions when conditional formatting of report components was fixed.
The error in the "Query Timeout" parameter for MS SQL and MySQL data sources.
The connection error with PostgreSQL data storage was fixed.
The error of using variables as parameters in SQL queries of data sources.
Some errors with dates in the "Table" element of the dashboard were fixed.
Issues with filtering data by date in the "Table" element of the dashboard were fixed.
Fixed some errors for the "Sub-Report" component in reports.
A bug with passing the path to the database as an argument to data connection events was fixed.
A bug with working of packed product scripts was fixed.
Fixed a bug when using numeric, currency and percentage formatting functions for string data.
The horizontal and vertical alignment for the "Image" element using icons in it was fixed.
A bug with the "Negative in Red" parameter for numeric formatting of the "Indicator" element.
Issues with rounding values when using abbreviations in the numeric formatting of dashboard elements were fixed.
The logarithmic calculation of the range of axes for the "Chart" component with series of the "Scatter" type was fixed.
The brush state in the "Shape" element editor was fixed.
Fixed an issue with clearing unused resources in the "Online map" element of the GIS type on the dashboard when scaling the map.
Incorrect displaying of the small size of the "Online Map" element of the GIS type in the report designer was fixed.
Triggering of a false event and filters when moving the "Regional map" element and triggering the MouseUp event was fixed.
The functionality of the "Text Format" quick button for a text component was fixed.
The algorithm for calculating the autorange for values greater than 10M in the "Gauge" element was fixed.
The error of double clicking on the Data band was fixed.
Clearing Recent connections in the "New Data Source" window was fixed.
Checking for valid characters in the "Decimal Digits" field for the percentage format of the text was added.
The issue with saving the value of a linear gauge was fixed when exporting a report to a *.mdc (JSON) file.
The error in processing the MonthName() function in reports was fixed.
The error parsing XML data when creating a data source based on them was fixed.
New Features:
An ability to specify an expression for the Enabled and Printable properties of components.
Support for displaying descriptions when hovering the cursor was added for graphical objects of the Points type on the "Online Map" element of the GIS type.
The ability to set the color and size of various graphic objects on the "Online Map" element of the GIS type was added.
Support for the "Indicator" style for the "Sparkline" component in the report was added.
An ability to use the Image element together with general dashboard filters is added.
An ability to use an expression is added for Text, Image, ZipCode, and other components.
An expression can be specified for the DockStyle, HorAlignment, VertAlignment, and ImageRotation properties.
Added support for .NET 5.0 RC1 framework for WinForms and WPF components.
A button to change the direction of the summary columns in the "Pivot Table" element of the dashboard.
The "Image Resolution Mode" option when exportingba report to the PDF file.
An expression can be used for ComponentStyle, EvenStyle, and OddStyle properties.
The new barcode - GS1-128 is added.
Support for expressions in properties such as "Brush", "Alignment", and "Color" for report components was added.
Added the "Labels" property group for the "Gauge" element in the dashboard.
The new "Strips" editor is added in the "Chart" component.
A new "Constant Lines" editor for the "Chart" component in reports and dashboards.
The "Group" property was added for the "Text" element in dashboards.
The "Bubbles" type for the columns of the "Table" element in dashboards was added.
An algorithm for protecting against script injection is added in the editor of the "Text" component.
Added the ability to use data columns in the "Image" element of the dashboard.
Support for expression for the "Enabled" and "Printable" properties of report components.
Support for expressions for the "Brush" and "Text Brush" properties of report components was added.
Added support for expressions for the Component Style property. For the "Data" band, the expression can also be used in the "Even Style" and "Odd Style" properties.
The ability to publish the report and dashboard to social networks Twitter and Facebook is added.
The new barcode - GS1-128 is added.
Improved security for working with XML templates. The DTD / DOCTYPE header is now ignored, which may have contained unsafe content.
Support for exporting "Bubbles" cells of the "Table" element in dashboards.
The algorithm for exporting a report to a PDF file was optimized. Now, the "Language" tag of the PDF file is filled from the "Culture" property of the report.
The third overload for the ToCurrencyWordsPt function is added.
Added support for the new format specification - ZUGFeRD v2.1.
The new StiOptions.Engine.OrdinalStringComparison option was added. It is used to enable byte string comparison mode when sorting.
Added support for custom functions in dashboards.
Added the functionality to localize the values that are returned when using the MonthIdent() function. The localization of the returned values depends on the value of the Culture property of the report.
The Format() fucntion is added.
Support for *.WKT files as a data source for the "Online map" element of the GIS type.
An ability to specify custom colors in the sparkline column of the table element.
The new Bubble column is added to the table element.
The Group property is added to the Text element.
Support for GeoJSON files as a data source for the "Online Map" element of the GIS type is added.
Enhancements:
Now the minimum required version of Java is 1.7.
Images loading from the data column in the image element through the hyperlink option is added.
The ability to search in Russian is available in the map selection window. The search algorithm in the editor of the "Regional map" element and the "Maps" component was updated. Now the search for the required type of a map is carried out with the support of the Russian language.
Updated the order of options in the property panel in WPF V1 and WPF V2 report designers.
Displaying styles for "Indicator" and "Progress" elements on the properties panel in the report designer.
Sets the right sequence after a copy-paste operation.
The error with repeated requesting data when using variables with a request to select or enter values by the user was fixed.
Improved speed of loading reports and dashboards that are designed using the Data Transformation.
The module for Firebird data sources was fixed.
Optimized and splitted into separate script files - report engive, charts, maps, exports, import from *.xlsx files. Now you can only use required parts of the software.
The "Geometry" element editor is adapted to scale the system up to 150%.
The Menu action replaced by the Save action in the dashboard viewer.
SVG library was moved from svg-salamander to Apache Batik.
Fixed Bugs:
Some issues with dependent variables in the Web viewer were fixed.
Some issues when processing a text component with calculations were fixed.
The displaying of "Report Checker" control buttons at the high resolution of the screen was fixed.
The image transparency error when exporting a report to a PDF file was fixed.
Some issues with the TextFormat property editor in the Style designer.
Some issues with the full screen function in the ribbon report viewer.
An issue with visibility of Retrieve button in the Data Source editor.
An issues with a variable with selection mode set to Nothing.
Fixed an issue with putting date when viewing a report or dashboard for values of a variable of the "List" type.
Loading of report files of the *.mrt (JSON) type into WPF designer and report viewer was fixed.
Added support for the "Indicator" style for the "Sparkline" component in the report.
The issue with highlighting of some components in the WPF V1 report designer was fixed.
Fixed moving of Zip Code and Check Box components in the WPF V1 report designer.
An issue with parsing GeoJSON data when creating a GIS data source.
Optimization of WinForms (.NET Core) windows of the report designer for different zoom values in the operating system.
The algorithm for calculating the autorange for values greater than 10M in the "Gauge" element was fixed.
A bug with switching filters in dashboards was fixed.
Some issues for the "Sparklines" columns in the "Table" element of the dashboard was added.
A bug with changing the background color when conditionally formatting report components was fixed.
A bug with the "Pivot Table" element of the dashboard with empty data was fixed.
A bug when changing the cell type in the "Table" component is fixed.
Exporting the background color for the Sparkline component is fixed.
Some errors when exporting the "Table" element in dashboards were fixed.
Optimized the export to PDF algorithm for the Sparkline component. Now, sparklines are exported as primitives.
The algorithm of exporting for QR barcode images when converting a report to Word and Excel files.
The error processing the value of the "Fully convert expression" property for the RichText component in the WinForms (.NET Core) report designer.
Cache storage path changed. The Stimulsoft folder is now the root for the cache folders.
The error in processing the 'Report Icon' property in the "Compilation" mode was fixed.
The export of background color for cells of the "Indicator" type in the "Table" element of the dashboard was fixed.
The error with report generation was fixed.
Fixed some bugs in the report designer.
The export of "Zip Code" and "Text in Cells" components taking into account the scale value of the operating system was fixed.
Some bugs with handling the "Grow to Height" and "Dock Style" properties of report components.
The error processing image opacity when exporting to PDF file is fixed.
A error of a connection that was created using columns with the DateTime data type.
A bug with viewing a query when editing a PostgreSQL data source was fixed.
The error with multilevel conditions when conditional formatting of report components was fixed.
The error in the "Query Timeout" parameter for MS SQL and MySQL data sources.
The connection error with PostgreSQL data storage was fixed.
The error of using variables as parameters in SQL queries of data sources.
Some errors with dates in the "Table" element of the dashboard were fixed.
Issues with filtering data by date in the "Table" element of the dashboard were fixed.
Fixed some errors for the "Sub-Report" component in reports.
A bug with passing the path to the database as an argument to data connection events was fixed.
A bug with working of packed product scripts was fixed.
Fixed a bug when using numeric, currency and percentage formatting functions for string data.
The horizontal and vertical alignment for the "Image" element using icons in it was fixed.
A bug with the "Negative in Red" parameter for numeric formatting of the "Indicator" element.
Issues with rounding values when using abbreviations in the numeric formatting of dashboard elements were fixed.
The logarithmic calculation of the range of axes for the "Chart" component with series of the "Scatter" type was fixed.
The brush state in the "Shape" element editor was fixed.
Fixed an issue with clearing unused resources in the "Online map" element of the GIS type on the dashboard when scaling the map.
Incorrect displaying of the small size of the "Online Map" element of the GIS type in the report designer was fixed.
Triggering of a false event and filters when moving the "Regional map" element and triggering the MouseUp event was fixed.
The functionality of the "Text Format" quick button for a text component was fixed.
The algorithm for calculating the autorange for values greater than 10M in the "Gauge" element was fixed.
The error of double clicking on the Data band was fixed.
Clearing Recent connections in the "New Data Source" window was fixed.
Checking for valid characters in the "Decimal Digits" field for the percentage format of the text was added.
The issue with saving the value of a linear gauge was fixed when exporting a report to a *.mdc (JSON) file.
The error in processing the MonthName() function in reports was fixed.
The error parsing XML data when creating a data source based on them was fixed.
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