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Dashboard Printing and Exporting (coming in 13.1)

One key feature many requested for our powerful dashboard tool was printing and exporting. Beginning with 13.1 you will be able to print both individual elements as well as the entire dashboard with little to no code. Printing/Exporting Individual Elements...

The DevExpress Team

20 May 2013

LightSwitch Reporting - Showing your Reports in a Separate Screen

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...

The DevExpress Team

14 July 2011

Exporting Reports to PowerPoint

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...

The DevExpress Team

14 February 2011

End-User Report Designer Webinar Recap

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...

The DevExpress Team

23 December 2010

WinForms–End-User Report Designer Custom Report Storage (Coming in v2010 vol 2)

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...

The DevExpress Team

29 November 2010

DevConnections 2010–The Story Behind Reports

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...

The DevExpress Team

3 November 2010

Document Map and Parameter Support in WPF and Silverlight Report Viewer (Coming in v2010 vol 2)

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...

The DevExpress Team

29 October 2010

Sort Groups by Summary (Coming in v2010 vol 2)

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...

The DevExpress Team

28 October 2010

Improved Border Support for all Report Controls (Coming in v2010 vol 2)

In the upcoming 2010 volume 2 release we’ve added a new BorderDashStyle property for all report controls. Take a look: As always, if there are any questions, please feel free to contact me! Seth Juarez Email: sethj@devexpress.com Twitter: @SethJuarez...

The DevExpress Team

22 October 2010

Reporting in the Azure Platform (Coming in v2010 vol 2)

You asked , we listened! We've addressed the issues with using our Reporting Suite on Azure and fixed them in the 10.2 version. Our reports will work even under a medium-trust environment (with a few caveats ). Under a full-trust setting, everything should...

The DevExpress Team

21 October 2010