Data Dynamics Reports includes an extensible reporting engine with advanced layout and control capabilities. The included controls for Windows Forms and ASP.NET developers expose the advanced interactivity features to end-users.  The Data Dynamics Reports API enables developers to process reports without requiring a user interface.

Features

• Embeddable reporting engine
• Intelligent Windows forms viewer and Web viewer
  • Configurable scroll bar jump buttons (like those found in Microsoft® Word®)
  • Document map (table of contents)
  • Drill down capability
  • Metadata query support
  • Parameters
  • Bookmark links, hyperlinks and drillthrough links
  • Interactive editing
• Rendering Extensions
  • HTML (XHTML)
  • PDF (with security, font embedding, and font subsetting)
  • Image (BMP, EMF, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, and PNG)
  • XML
  • Word
• Master reports
• Themes
• Scripting
• Advanced controls
  • FormattedText Report Item with mail merge capabilities and XHTML + CSS support
  • BarCode Report Item
  • BandedList Data Region
  • Calendar Data Region
  • Bullet Graph Report Item
  • Sparkline Data Region
• Data Sources
  • SQL
  • Dataset
  • Object (used for unbound data)
  • ODBC
  • OLEDB
  • Oracle
  • XML
  • Custom data provider extensions can also be created
• Data Regions
  • Table
  • Matrix
  • List
  • Banded List
  • Chart
  • Calendar
  • Sparkline
• Report Items
  • TextBox
  • Line
  • Rectangle
  • Image
  • Subreport
  • Bullet Graph
• Expressions
  • Aggregates
  • Data Visualization
    • Data bar
    • Icon set
    • Range bar
    • Color scale
• Imports
  • Access® Reports
  • Crystal Reports
  • ActiveReports for .NET

Data Dynamics Reports allows you to integrate royalty-free reports based on Report Definition Language (RDL) into .NET Web and Windows forms applications. It provides a comprehensive object model and API, allowing you to create and modify reports in code for maximum customization and development flexibility.

The report designer can be used within Visual Studio 2005 to connect reports to data, lay out reports, add code for use in expressions, and preview reports.

Data Dynamics Reports adds new components to the RDL specification to extend your reporting capabilities.

• The Formatted Text report item takes XHTML + CSS input.
• The Barcode report item includes 28 of the most popular symbologies.
• The Banded List report item combines the freeform layout of the list report item with the grouping and nesting capabilities of the table data region.
• The Chart report item provides all of the standard chart types plus some of the less commonly found financial charts like Kagi and Three Line Break.

For your convenience, two applications are included with this installation which are independent of the Visual Studio environment. Both of these applications demonstrate the capabilities of the corresponding controls available for use within Visual Studio 2005.

The Report Viewer application opens RDL and RDLX files with interactive features and allows users to print or export reports. The ReportPreview control available within Visual Studio allows developers to customize the user experience.

Export formats use these rendering extensions.

• HTML (XHTML)
• PDF (with security, font embedding, and font subsetting)
• Image (BMP, EMF, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, or PNG)
• XML
• Word

Interactive features such as the following are supported.

• Document Map (table of contents)
• Bookmark Links, Hyperlinks, and Drill Through links
• Parameters
• Drill-down
• Search and meta-data queries
• Copy, pan, and zoom
• Jump to previous, next, first, or last group or search result

The Report Designer application empowers users to create or modify report layouts. The UserDesignerControl available within Visual Studio allows developers to customize the user experience in their own applications. The designer has the following features:

• Visual Basic.NET expression based control properties
• Added data visualization functions (DataBar, ColorScale, IconSet, and RangeBar)
• Advanced aggregate functions
• Multiple data regions
• Use relational data in native formats such as XML, ADO.NET DataSets, and Object hierarchies