• Report Creation Wizard is available so that can walk you through the creation of a report. It is configurable and allows you to specify your data source, group specific fields, create summaries, and more. This makes it easy to create basic reports that you can use immediately or set up the framework for a more complex report.
• Built-in preview form comes with XtraReports that allows you to give your users the ability to navigate and scale reports, customize page settings, and print or export reports to PDF, HTML, RTF, or other formats. What's more, this preview is available for both Windows Forms applications as well as ASP.NET Web applications.
• Create reports dynamically give you the ability to create your entire report from code. That is, you do not have to use the designer. This means that you have the ability to extend existing reports either by inheriting from them in code or visually, giving you the ability to choose what will be most productive for you.
• Integrated report explorer tool lets you quickly navigate a report in the designer. You can quickly access all of the elements of a report as well as their properties to see the structure of the report.
• Sub-reports can be used to create very complex reports by building smaller reports as the building blocks and merge them in to one larger report. This gives you the ability to take reports that need different data sources and put them together as one.
• Report merging gives you the ability to use pages from different reports to create a single combined report. There are no limits on how many different reports, page order, or page orientation. This can be a real time saver if you have the need to put together large corporate reports from a lot of individual existing reports.
• Drill down and roll-up reports for reports that use data grouping so you can handle a specially designed Print Preview event to allow end-users to collapse or expand groups. This makes it much easier to locate the desired data when previewing lengthy reports.
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