DevExpress Reports – New Tutorial Videos & Recent Minor Enhancements

If you are new to DevExpress Reports or are considering our reporting platform for a future project, please take a moment to review the following tutorials on our YouTube channel.

Getting Started Videos

• Expression Basics

  The video explains how to bind reports/controls to data and how to use our Expression Editor and expression language (use of expressions within format strings, and more).

• Introduction to Report Parameters

  This video demonstrates how to build interactive reports or conditionally shape report data/appearance.

• Advanced Scenarios with Report Parameters

  This video describes the benefits of multi-value parameters. It explains how to filter report data against multiple criteria, create cascading report parameters, and filter parameter values with another parameter.

• Using Sparklines to Visualize Data Trends within a Report

  This video illustrates how to add Sparklines to a report and modify it with the DevExpress Report Designer.

• Adding Charts to a Report with XRChart

  This video offers steps-by-step guidance on use of our XRChart control and how you can add charts to your report within the DevExpress Report Designer.

• Bind a DevExpress Report to the MongoDB Data Source

  This video illustrates how to bind a DevExpress report to a MongoDB data source within the DevExpress Visual Studio Report Designer.

• Minimize Report Design Errors with the Help of our Report Design Analyzer

  This video describes our Report Design Analyzer and how to avoid common report-design related errors.

• Create Accessible PDF Documents with DevExpress Reports

  This video demonstrates how to export reports to PDF/A-1a, PDF/A-2a, PDF/A-3a, and PDF/UA-1 compatible documents.

A Few Recent DevExpress Reports-related Enhancements

A new image sizing mode - Cover

As you may already know, we recently added a Cover image sizing mode. In this mode, the smaller side of the image is scaled to match control dimensions (height or width). The larger side is scaled proportionally and exceeds the control’s bounds. Portions outside control boundaries are clipped.

Original Image
XRPictureBox dimensions
Resulting Appearance

Chart Designer - 3D Series

The Chart Wizard in our new .NET Core Report Designer allows you to integrate 3D series within XRChart controls.

Note: Our new 3D series are not yet available on Linux-based platforms/Azure. A report with a 3D chart series will raise an exception on these platforms.

Blazor - Asynchronous Engine

Those using our Blazor Report Viewer may know that the PreviewReportCustomizationService.CustomizeReportAsync asynchronous method was not available previously. We removed this limitation in our most recent v21.1 update. As such, you can now register PreviewReportCustomizationService service implementations and call the DefaultReportDesignerContainer.UseAsyncEngine method to access threads from the thread pool when reporting components load, save, or export reports.

Your Feedback Matters

As always, we welcome your thoughts/feedback. If you found our YouTube tutorials of value, please comment below. We expect to release additional tutorial videos over the coming months.

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