Выпущена новая версия генератора отчетов Stimulsoft Reports.Net 2006.4

Наш программный продукт Stimulsoft Reports.Net становится все мощнее и мощнее. В этом релизе мы добавили новые свойства, реализовали новые функции, и, в целом, сделали несколько шагов в разработке продукта, которые позволили упростить работу наших пользователей и, одновременно, увеличить возможности генератора отчетов.

Ниже Вы можете ознакомиться с наиболее значимыми изменениями в данной версии:

New Components

• New HorizontalLinePrimitive component.
• New VerticalLinePrimitive component. This component can work in traversal mode.
• New RectanglePrimitive component. This component can work in traversal mode.

Changes in Exports of Reports

• Export to dbf (dBase/FoxPro) is added.
• Export to mht (WebArchive) is added.
• Now excel export supports images.
• Now you can create encrypted pdf files with passwords.
• Now underline fonts successfully exports to pdf.
• New rtf export mode - Table.
• Special option of export to rtf - Page Headers and Footers.
• All segmented pages will be divided when exporting.
• Export to xml is fully redesigned.
• Now rtf text exports to pdf as a text. This feature radically decrease size of result files.
• New ExportAsImage property is added to the StiText.

Changes in Charts

• New types of charts - SteppedLine and SteppedLineArea.
• Conditions for each series (Conditions property).
• Sorting of values and arguments with property (SortDirection and SortBy properties).
• Filtering of values and arguments (Filters property).
• Now you can create series automatically.
• New Width for columns and bars property.
• New UseSeriesColor property.
• The Range property for each axis.
• The Step property for each axis.
• Special StiOptions.Print.ChartAsBitmap property.
• Special StiOptions.Engine.RenderChartAsImage property.
• The ProcessAtEnd property for processing charts at end of report rendering.
• New StiSeriesLabels.ShowValue property.
• New StiSeriesLabels.LegendValueType property.
• New StiProcessChartEvent event in chart.

Changes in Web Reports

• New PrintDestination at WebViewer property. This property allows you to select type of printing in web. You can print to pdf file, to popup window or directly to printer.
• New StiWebViewer.HtmlCharSet property. This property allows you to select the CharSet for resulting files.
• New ScrollBarsMode in StiWebViewer property.
• New ShowPageBorders in StiWebViewer property.
• IsImageRequest is obsolete.

New Abilities in Report Preview

• Now you can preview and print reports in dot-matrix mode.
• With new Report.PreviewSettings property you can adjust behavior of Preview Window.
• With new Report.PrinterSettings property you can adjust printer settings.

New in Report Designer

• Intellisense to text expression editor.
• Subscript and superscript to rtf editor.
• New Label Wizard. This wizard helps you create report with labels.
• Fully redesigned UI of filters of databands.
• Fully redesigned UI of sortings of databands.
• Fully redesigned UI System Text Editor.
• Updated standard report wizard.
• Now you can sort items in dictionary.
• Fully redesigned UI of sorting.
• New image editor.
• New StiOptions.Designer.RunWizardAfterLoad property.

New in Data Processing

• Report engine now supports IDictionary.
• Report engine now supports ICustomTypeDescriptor.
• New unique ability - you can create new datasource based on another datasource.
• New database adapter - MySql data adapter.

New in Report Engine

• New system variables: LineRoman, LineABC.
• Conditions - new property for each component. This property helps you adjust quality of components when report rendering.
• New GlobalizedStrings property - this property allows you to fully localize report with special editor for different languages.
• New AutoScale property in BarCodes.
• The StiGroupHeaderBand.SortDirection property. This property adjust sorting of data in groups.
• New ResetPageNumber property. With this property you can reset page number when report rendering.
• The StartNewPage property is added to the HeaderBand and to the FooterBand.
• The CanBreak property is added to the HeaderBand and GroupHeaderBand.
• New StiBarCode.ShowLabelText property.
• New StiReport.SubReports property for printing report which contains other reports.
• The Tag property for the StiReport.
• The StiConfig.Engine.UseGdi32ForTextRendering property.
• Progress bar is added for exporting, saving, loading and rendering operations.
• The StiComponent.PrintOn property.
• Now you can place a cross-tab on a databand.
• The StiPage.PageHeadersFootersFromPrevPage property.
• The StiPage.Watermark.Enabled property.
• Watermark's image is added
• Now variable can contain an image.
• New expression is added to Image - ImageData.
• New property is added to the StiRichText.FullConvertExpression.
• New Function for variable property.
• New Exporting, Exported, Printing, Printed events to a report.
• New ShrinkFontToFit property to the Text component.
• New ShrinkFontToFitMinimumSize property to the Text component.
• New StiReport.ReportCacheMode property.
• Now you can place Crossband anywhere.
• Line for groups is supported.
• Improved work of the ProcessingDuplicates property.
• WYSIWYG property is replaced by new TextQuality property. All old reports will be converted automatically.