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ActiveReports is a reporting framework for Visual Studio programmers designed and marketed by GrapeCity. It offers three different types of reports: traditional banded reports with event-based code or script for fine-tuning reports like Microsoft Access or Crystal Reports, page-based reports for fixed layouts, and RDL reports for more fluid, interactive reports. It is designed for use in Windows Forms desktop or ASP.NET and HTML5 applications.

Originally developed by Data Dynamics as the first ActiveX Designer for Visual Basic 5 in 2001, it was rewritten in C# for the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET. GrapeCity acquired the product in 2009, in 2012 GrapeCity acquired ComponentOne and began marketing the product under the company name "ComponentOne, a division of GrapeCity." It is now in Version 9 and is fully integrated into Visual Studio 2010 through 2015, and is no longer marketed with ComponentOne.

Since version 7, it has provided two different kinds of reports. Section reports use an event-based banded section report design similar to Microsoft Access or Crystal Reports. It also offers Page reports which focus on the design of the page and use a variety of data regions to manipulate and display the data.

In version 8, a third type of report, CPL (continuous page layout), was added, and was renamed to RDL reports in version 9. This type of report has controls that can shrink or grow, and allows for the most interactivity with drill-down action for hidden data, interactive sorting, drill-through links to other reports, and bookmark links to other sections of the same report.

Since its introduction, it has been and remains the best selling reporting tool among Microsoft Developers on ComponentSource and other industry resellers. It includes controls for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Silverlight, and HTML5. It can also be used in WPF and Windows Azure applications.

In August 2011 ActiveReports Server was launched. ActiveReports Server is a web-based ad hoc report designer with built-in, secure, scalable storage and distribution capabilities that allow companies to rapidly deploy self-service reporting to a large number of users more effectively than traditional reporting tools.

For more information see the ActiveReports Developer website, the ActiveReports Server site, or ActiveReports on wikipedia.

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How to render Active Reports WebViewer in ASP.NET MVC

I asked this question in the DataDynamics forum earlier today. I thought that maybe I'd get some sort of response here at SO. I am trying to get the WebViewer up and running in my ASP.NET MVC application. I am attempting to render the webviewer in…
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Language encoding problem with DataDynamics.ActiveReports.Export.Pdf.PdfExport reference

I have an encoding problem with DataDynamics.ActiveReports.Export.Pdf.PdfExport reference. It exports my report successfully but without using encoding. So, every char in other language than English is omitted. How can I set it? Is there any…
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JsonMediaTypeFormatter formatting with k__backingfield

I'm having an issue with the JsonMediaTypeFormatter that as far as I can tell just started happening very recently. At some point, the object I have (a plain old poco) started serializing complete as backing fields. I am using auto properties…
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License.licx File and Licensed/Unlicensed machines

In a VS2010 solution I have a license.licx file that contains: DataDynamics.ActiveReports.ActiveReport, ActiveReports6, Version=6.1.2814.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc4967777c49a3ff DataDynamics.ActiveReports.Web.WebViewer, ActiveReports.Web,…
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.NET's license compiler (LC.EXE) seems to ignore the contents of licenses.licx on one machine, but not on the other. Why?

Background info: I've set up a very simple .NET solution in VS2008 that contains just enough code to display an ActiveReports report in a preview window. The ActiveReports component uses the licenses.licx mechanism to decide whether it has been…
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Programmatically Insert Page Break in ActiveReports

I've been scouring the web for a good example, but cannot figure out how to add a page break to an ActiveReports report programmatically. The reports I'm working with usually require 1-2 pages for each record. In order to support dual-sided printing…
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How to create a report using c# with Active Reports?

I have never created any report in VS, now i am facing problem in adding reference to my project. Can any one tell me the basics of Report Generation and How to add reference to our project?
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PDF*.tmp file are not deleted and Out of Memory Exception when CacheToDisk is used

We are using ActiveReports in our project, in the code we are using CacheToDisk property to avoid memory exception. We used WCF service, which will call a method in dll which contains the ActiveReport Report generation. The WCF service is hosted in…
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Easiest way to pass parameters to ActiveReports report from .NET code

How does one pass parameters needed by my SQL query in an ActiveReports report? I know about the code that goes into the ReportStart event, but how does one pass the values of the parameters to the report?
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Active Reports 9: Multi-Colum SectionReport, is this possible?

I'm trying to get a SectionReport to have more than one column. The report is very long and there is plenty of space on the right side of the list (see upload) How can I do that in Visual Studio 13 (C#) using Active Reports 9? The data comes from a…
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Visual Studio 2013 refuses to build solution, says "Could not load file or assembly ... Failed to grant minimum permission requests", 0x80131417

I have a VS solution that used to build fine. It's been building fine for like forever in VS 2010, and built fine until I made some modifications to a project that pulls in a third-party library (in this case, ActiveReports3) at which point I can no…
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Report handler architecture question

I am attempting to have a ReportHandler service to handle report creation. Reports can have multiple, differing number of parameters that could be set. In the system currently there are several different methods of creating reports (MS reporting…
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Adding a new property to a control which opens a new form?

We have a report designer project which uses Active Reports. We want to use SubReport tool of the Active Reports. Subreport control has a "report" property which fills the ActiveReport content of the Subreport. Since we have a designer project and a…
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Count number of rows in a report using VB

I have a VB report which contains a list of locations. I have this list separated into areas and I need to count the total number of rows per area section. I have a groupHeader which contains my area field, then in the group I list the corresponding…
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How do I export an ActiveReport to XLS in an ASP.Net MVC app?

I am unsure how to go about exporting my ActiveReports report document to XLS in my asp.net mvc app. My concept so far is to have a dropdown of export types and a submit button that submits that value to my controller. When I'm on the controller,…
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