We have added a great new feature to our reporting offering in an upcoming minor release ( v2011 vol 1.6 ): a custom print preview screen! Now, instead of showing a report preview full-screen by calling the PrintPreview.Show() method as before, you can add a specialized screen to your application, …...

There it was staring me in the face for the last couple of weeks: That is indeed a TO-DO task that is slightly overdue. A little background: Several weeks ago I encountered a thread explaining a feature request dealing primarily with exporting reports to PowerPoint. I said I would hack something together...

In my previous blog post , I provided an introduction to binding the grid, applying themes, and displaying the print preview embedded in the Silverlight Window Control. For the sake of simplicity, I left out details on how to print and export the grid’s data. That content was reserved for this...

So, three product names in the title... what is this blog post going to be about? Here is the quick one sentence summary: Use the Silverlight Window Control from DevExpress to show the print preview of our Silverlight Grid bound to data. That’s the general overview, but this post will also serve...

I wanted to do a little recap on what was covered in our End-User Designer Webinar which is found here: In this webinar, I prepared a sample app for managing contacts using XPO as the data layer: We started with this basic contact manager application and then worked through the following: Added a Create...

Coming in version 2010 volume 2 we’ve made it easier to save and load reports to any data source in the end-user report designer. In the following diagram I have created a new Open Dialog which loads the report definition from a dataset saved to an xml file: This kind of extension will allow you...

It’s been great spending some time with our users and potential clients! As I’ve been speaking with them, I found the common thing that attracts people to our reporting platform is simple: with the DevExpress Reporting Suite, you can invest in reports without having to necessarily worry about provider...

We’re adding support for report parameters and document map (generated by report bookmarks) to our WPF and Silverlight reporting tools. Take a look: These new features, available in both WPF and Silverlight, recognize the native support for parameters and bookmarks available in our report classes...

There are many times where we would like to sort a report by aggregate data contained in a group. This feature has now been added in v2010.2. The following report is a sales report grouped by product category and sorted by cumulative sales in each category (descending). Take a look: Now when viewing...

In the previous version of the DXGrid for WPF, the print preview contained visual elements for each row within the grid. When creating a printable document, these elements were generated all at once and stored for the document’s entire life cycle. This worked perfectly for middle-size documents...