Software Review: DXperience, Part IV — DXperience XtraReports, XtraCharts, and XtraPrinting from DevExpress - Page 3

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• End-user report designer also comes with XtraReports that can freely be distributed to your end-users so that they can manually create, print, and export reports as needed. You even create a custom end-user designer using some of the other controls and components from the DevExpress DXperience.

DXperienceXtraCharts Suite
Like all of the items in this review, XtraCharts Suite is designed for both WinForms and ASP.NET. In this suite you get a comprehensive set of 2D and 3D charts to address a broad range of business needs. In fact, it ships with 28 unique 2D, and 15 3D views ranging from bar and pie charts to financial series.

Regardless of the data source or how the information is stored on disk, this suite gives you much flexibility in its consumption of input data as well as ability to render information on-screen or to the printed page. By addressing tasks such as multiple palettes to automatically color your series the XtraCharts Suite allows you to build charting into your application quickly.

What do you get with DXperience XtraCharts Suite?
• 3D OpenGL Charting takes the industry standard for high-performance graphics and applies it to the XtraCharts 3D rendering engine. OpenGL has proven stability over time and will allow you to generate applications with life-like pictures with real light sources, shadows and flares. There are 15 chart styles including bar charts, area charts, pie charts, and spline charts all with many end-user abilities like scrolling and zooming.

• 2D Charting comes with 28 charts that allow you to transform data to its most concise and readable visual representation. You can put multiple, and different, series in one diagram, you can scroll and zoom within your charts, and create multiple pane charts

• Data Analysis features give you the ability to not only chart an X and Y axis, but as many X and Y axes as you need so you can visually compare trends of multiple series within a single diagram even if the series values vary greatly. You have at your disposal normal scales, logarithmic scales, group summary calculations, as well as the ability to display the top N values. You can even create financial charts like candle stick and stock charts as well.

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