The Active Reports is known to be a reporting tool of the .NET which is used by the developers of the .NET Core, Win Forms, and even the ASP.NET and applications. This particular reporting tool was originally originated in the year 2019 and was originally developed to data Dynamics which was later acquired by the Grape City. The Active Report is described to be a set of components as well as tools that are capable of facilitating the production process of the report to display data in a particular document as well as web-based formats. It has the ability to write in the managed code of the C# and permits the users and the developers along with the visual studio programmers to leverage the knowledge of the C# or the as well as the Visual Basic .NET whenever the user starts the programming process with the help of the Active Reports. Among the components that are included with the active report, there are file formats for the exporting such as PDF, Excel, word as well as the RTF. The main components, in this case, are the visual studio which is an integrated report designer and has the API which is being used by the users and the developers to create a customized report right from the variety of the sources of data which is available. The Active Report standard edition has included a visual query designer as well as a customizable window viewer control in it along with the viewer control WPF. This particular report designer is capable of handling three types of reports such as section report which has a banded section just like the original Active Report, the pager report that consists of a fixed layout for the forms, and finally the report of the RDL which has a continuous page layout just like the case of data Dynamic report. This particular report has been said to have added the support of the touch for the windows as well as the viewer of the WPF and has added the report of the map as well as the items for the analytical geographical representation with the support for the views. It is an optional add-on that can support multi-tenant reporting process, extensibility of the security, data caching, and last but not least of the report and its features. It should be added that the reporting of the extent to the windows, Linux as well as the Mac OS for the users on the developers by the process of embedding Active Reports in the user application of .NET Core. With the support and the guidance for the .NET Core, the user is capable and permitted to create web as well as desktop applications with the use of the Active Reports. It is capable of providing integration with the use of the visual studio and it permits the programmers and the users to leverage programming language. The professional edition of the Active Reports for the .NET is capable of picturing the end-user report designer control which permits the user and the developer to host the report designer in the user application to provide the end-user with the power and the ability to create as well as modify reports. It also included a web viewer which is server-side which is capable of taking advantage of the handlers of the HTTP and the ASP.NET. And finally, it permits the user to display the reports without the need to write a custom code for the process of exporting the famous format such as PDF and HTML.
The features and the attributes of the Active Reports are stated below as:
