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WPF and Silverlight Reporting - Support for Document Watermarks

This blog post announces a useful enhancement applied to our DocumentPreview control in the next version of the XtraReports Suite ( v2011 vol 2 ) - the capability to add text and image watermarks to your report documents created in WPF and Silverlight...

The DevExpress Team

15 September 2011

Silverlight Project Wizard

As I was getting ready to start documenting the new reporting features coming in our second release in 2011, I came across a cool little project template when starting up a Silverlight project: Needless to say I got curious so I clicked on it to see what...

The DevExpress Team

12 September 2011

Silverlight Reporting - Accessing Subreports' Parameters

Here is a brief overview of a small new feature we'll introduce to help simplify use of subreport parameters in Silverlight. In previous versions, accessing client-side subreport parameters when using nested subreports was inconvenient. The ReportPreviewModel...

The DevExpress Team

8 July 2011

LightSwitch Reporting Preview

With our recent 11.1 release we have added support for Microsoft’s brand new development platform: Visual Studio LightSwitch . LightSwitch enables developers to quickly create business applications using preconfigured screens that adapt to the data you...

The DevExpress Team

13 June 2011

Document Preview Window Shortcuts in WPF/Silverlight

Sometimes clicking takes too long! Accelerate your users’ ability to get things done with reporting by using shortcuts for some of the common things they do. Here they are: Ctrl + Mouse Wheel Scroll Up = Zoom in Ctrl + Mouse Wheel Scroll Down = Zoom out...

The DevExpress Team

26 May 2011

Using Reporting Events in WPF and Silverlight to Create a Drill Through Report

Some new events have been added to the document preview model for both Silverlight and WPF: PreviewClick , (Silverlight/WPF) PreviewDoubleClick , (WPF) and PreviewMouseMove . (Silverlight/WPF) These events will enable you to add some serious interactivity...

The DevExpress Team

23 May 2011

Reporting with Silverlight (and MVVM) Webinar–Wednesday May 11th, 10:00AM PST

Hello again! I wanted to remind everyone of an upcoming reporting webinar on Wednesday May 11th, 2011 at 10AM PST. In this webinar I will be covering the ins and outs of reporting with Silverlight. In addition I will spend some time discussing the popular...

The DevExpress Team

10 May 2011

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