# Designers

Learn about what report types and items support ActiveReports Designers.

## Content

ActiveReports offers three designers: Standalone Designer, WebDesigner, and Visual Studio Integrated Designer. These designers provide rich report design functionality for web and desktop applications.

## Standalone Designer Key Features

ActiveReports provides a compiled tool - [a standalone designer application](/activereportsnet/docs/v20.1/report-authors/standalone-designer-app) for desktop applications. This designer lets users view, edit, and create complete design-based, code-free, .NET reports in a single application.

* Predefined templates and simple drag-and-drop operations to make report designing easy and quick, without using any code.
* Customize the desired Report Designer using the modularized designer controls.
* Offers deeper insight into the data with rich interactivity, including drill-down, drill-through, sorting, and more.
* Flexible API for advanced control and customization.

## WebDesigner Key Features

[ActiveReports WebDesigner](/activereportsnet/docs/v20.1/developers/create-applications/web-designer-application) is based on HTML5/JS technology stacks available for the ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Core MVC, allowing users to create ad hoc reports in all major browsers.

* Easily create new reports with built-in drag-and-drop functionality, snap lines, guides, and wizards.
* Provide deeper insight into your data with rich interactivity, including drill-down, drill-through, sorting, and more.
* Easy to use with an Office-inspired UI designed for a familiar look and feel.
* Rich API to enable UI customization based on the desired functionality.
* Create ad-hoc reports in the desired browser.

## Visual Studio Integrated Designer Key Features

ActiveReports offers an [integrated designer](/activereportsnet/docs/v20.1/developers/working-with-reports-devs/activereports-designer) that lets users create report layouts in Visual Studio and edit them at design time, visually, and through code, script, or regular expressions.

* The Visual Studio-based designer includes full integration into the best .NET IDE.
* Build code-based functions in the code behind.
* Drag-and-drop controls to easily create new reports.
* Select report controls from the built-in Toolbox.
* Visualize the report layout as a tree view with the Report Explorer.
* Convert existing reports with the Report Conversion Utility feature.
* Visualize Tablix row and column groupings with the Group Editor panel.

## Report Controls

ActiveReports Designers support the below controls and data regions (report items) in Page, RDLX, and Section Reports:

| Section Reports | Page Reports/RDLX Reports |
| --------------- | ------------------------- |
| <ul><li>ReportInfo</li><li>Label</li><li>Line</li><li>PageBreak</li><li>SubReport</li><li>Shape</li><li>Picture</li><li>RichTextBox with HTML tag support</li><li>Chart with separate data source</li><li>Textbox</li><li>Barcode with standard styles plus RSS and UPC styles</li><li>Checkbox</li><li>CrossSectionBox extends from a header section to the related footer section</li><li>CrossSectionLine extends from a header section to the related footer section</li><li>InputFieldText</li><li>InputFieldCheckBox</li></ul> | <ul><li>Table data region</li><li>Tablix data region</li><li>Map data region</li><li>Chart data region</li><li>Classic Chart</li><li>List data region</li><li>BandedList data region</li><li>Sparkline data region</li><li>FormattedText with mail merge capabilities and XHTML + CSS support</li><li>Bullet Graph</li><li>BarCode</li><li>CheckBox</li><li>TextBox</li><li>TableOfContents</li><li>Line</li><li>Container</li><li>Shape</li><li>Image</li><li>Subreport</li><li>Overflow Placeholder (Page Report only)</li><li>ContentPlaceHolder (RDLX Master Report only)</li><li>InputField</li><li>CustomReportItem</li></ul> |

## See Also

#### Report Authors

[Report Controls](/activereportsnet/docs/v20.1/report-authors/report-controls)

[Report Types](/activereportsnet/docs/v20.1/report-authors/reporttypes)