Customize Your Reports With ActiveReports.NET - The Leader in VB.NET Reporting Solutions
Design and deliver powerful reports with our intuitive, reliable, and user-friendly report designers and controls for ASP.NET MVC, WinForms, and WPF.
Download Free Trial Request A Demo- Three designers: Visual Studio Report Designer, End-user report designers for web and desktop applications, and a standalone designer app
- Customize and maintain control with our extensive API and advanced feature library
- Deploy on Linux without complicated system configurations
- Lightweight yet powerful report viewers and designers for ASP.NET Core reporting
- Multiple report types to suit any reporting needs in C# or VB.NET
Overview
A VB.NET reporting tool is a software component used for data consolidation and visualization within the Visual Studio IDE. ActiveReports.NET is a solution used by .NET developers to embed reporting within desktop applications. Major features such as flexible report designers and viewers, rich controls, and extensible API make ActiveReports.NET an industry leader.
VB.NET Report Designers
Empower users to create reports on demand by embedding the fully customizable End-User Report Designers in your web or desktop applications. Our intuitive designers are easy to use for technical and non-technical report authors.
Deliver To Any Device
Extend reporting to Windows, Linux, and macOS by embedding ActiveReports in your .NET Core or .NET 8 applications. With support for cross-platform deployment, deliver interactive reports to any device with your web and desktop applications.
Rich Report Controls
Visualize your data with a wealth of feature-packed controls such as charts, tables, tablix, barcodes, sparklines, maps, and more. Combined with multiple report types, ActiveReports provides the means to design reports for any business need.
Reliability You Can Trust
ActiveReports has been a pioneering reporting solution since 1998 by introducing the first reporting tool to work inside the Visual Basic IDE, and then the first 3rd party Visual Studio integrated designer in .NET. After almost three decades, we continue to bring you, and your users, extensive reporting experience with rich controls, advanced features, and the latest tech.
Royalty-Free Deployment
Distribute reports in your JavaScript, ASP.NET, WPF, or WinForms applications without additional licensing. Runtime royalty-free with no user fees or CALs, freely distribute the customizable end-user report designers to your users for on-demand reporting.
Plug and Play Connectivity
Create reusable connections to ODBC, OLEDB, .NET, XML, Web Services, Data Objects, and runtime data sources even if you can't write a database query. Mix multiple sources in a single project and share reports for optimal efficiency.
Our Top VB.NET Reporting Features
Offer Ad-Hoc Reporting to End-Users
By embedding the customizable End-User Report Designer component in your desktop or web solution, you can give your users a tailored ad hoc report-creation experience.
Visual Studio Integrated Designer
Create reports in the same window as your project without switching to a different app with ActiveReports' VS Integrated Designer. This designer is fully integrated with Visual Studio offering a Toolbox, Properties and Report Explorer panes, and much more.
Branch Out With Multiple Report Types
Pick from layout-driven page reports, scrolling RDL reports, and code-based section reports to create a full-featured report library.
Extensible APIs
Control runtime report rendering using our extensible API. Customize report viewers, designers, and report data regions for a complete white-labeled experience.
Design Once, Use Everywhere
Reports designed with any of our report designers can be used in any desktop or web applications.
Export to Multiple Formats
Export to major modern document types like PDF, Excel, CSV, DocX, JSON, Word, RTF, HTML, Text, XML, and TIFF.
Conditional Formatting
You can easily conditionally format your ASP.NET reports using expressions. Expressions are like simple scripts that you can use to calculate values, concatenate strings, or set a condition under which a style is applied.
Drill-Down Reporting
Drill down functionality allows you to present an overview of your report while giving your users the ability to drill down into the more granular levels of data by clicking '+' icon. Drill Down reporting is as simple as setting the 'Toggle' property in ActiveReports.
Drill-Through Reporting
The Drill-Through feature is a way of presenting the same data, or a subset of data, in a different layout and with different controls.
Sparklines
Embed Sparklines in your VB.NET reports to show data trends in a simple chart. Sparklines can show data as Line, Column, Whisker, Area, or Stacked Bar type.
Subreports
Re-use your reports, or use data from multiple disparate data sources in a single report with subreports. Changes in subreport will automatically show everywhere it is used.
Dynamic Reporting
Use expressions and custom code to control report behavior at runtime. Use events to dynamically bind reports to data.
Parameterized Reports
Another way to create dynamic reports is to use Parameters. Parameters are prompts to take user input and filter the data to the desired volume.
Charts
ActiveReports offers a total of 85 chart types across different chart technologies. Some of those charts include Area Charts, Bar Charts, Bubble Charts, Column Charts, Financial Charts, Line Charts, Pie Charts, Scatter Charts, and other complex charts.
WYSIWYG Report Layout
With defined boundaries for each report item, Page reports generate a pixel perfect, WYSIWYG, report.
Table of Contents
Display an organized hierarchy of report heading levels and labels, along with their page numbers, in the body of your report.
Aggregates
Create financial accounting reports for VB.NET with ActiveReports with Table and Tablix controls that have built-in support for aggregates and calculated fields to summarize accounting data.
Nested Controls
Nest one control inside another. Some controls, such as a Textbox, Table, Tablix, Shape, and more allow you to place other controls inside them. You can put a Chart, Image, or even a Table inside another Table.
Master Reports
Create dynamic templates for maintaining branding, layout, themes, data sources, code, and apply them across all reports. Control what areas of the report users can modify and lock the rest.
Mail Merge
Embed HTML text in your VB.NET reports using ActiveReports FormattedText control. As a versatile reporting control, FormattedText is frequently used to create mail merge reports.
Hierarchical Layout
Create hierarchical, tree-view type, reports using the List, Table, Tablix, and Banded List controls. Embed one or more controls within each data region with grouping enabled and optionally set drill-down functionality.
RTL and Localization
ActiveReports supports both Left-To-Right and Right-To-Left text direction. Localize, ActiveReports controls, designers, and viewers to the Culture and Language Name property as defined by MSDN.
Multi-Column Reports
You can divide your report page into multiple columns, similar to MS Word. This demo shows a report with a 2-column layout and the table filling both columns.
Deliver Beautifully-Designed VB.NET Reports in Less Time with the ActiveReports Designers
Ad hoc Report Designer for Web
These embeddable components enable you to build complete design-based reports code-free and offer ad hoc report design for your end-users in your web and desktop apps.
- Easily create new reports with the drag-and-drop interface
- Customize to fit your needs
- Toolbox, Properties, Report Explorer, and Grouping panels built-in
- Familiar, user-friendly, UI
Visual Studio Integrated Report Designer
The Visual Studio-based designer includes full integration into the best VB.NET IDE.
- Toolboxes and properties windows
- Drag and drop controls to the design surface
- Build code-based functions in the code behind
- Available in ActiveReports Professional and Standard
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