ActiveReports.NET is mainly a product for developers. The developers are responsible for most of the use-cases related to ActiveReports, including:

• creating and storing reports, especially with Standard license and Code-Based Section reports.
• binding data sources at runtime and the custom data providers the data sources.
• creating and customizing the applications.
• licensing the applications.
• exporting reports applications.

Some reports creation can be delegated to independent Report Authors, otherwise this task is primarily for developers. Some customization, configuration, and deployment tasks can be delegated to DevOps too.

In this section, let's dive into the information required by developers to perform their tasks.