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Posted by: John.Reynolds on 4 January 2024, 12:13 pm EST
John.Reynolds
Posted 4 January 2024, 12:13 pm EST
I have to ask, as we only use Section Reports (.cs)… is there any closer movement to getting a native designer in Visual Studio 2022 / dotnet 8 so that we don’t have to do the dance of creating a dotnet 4.8 environment and linking reports?
Thanks
anand.sinha
Posted 4 January 2024, 11:40 pm EST
Hi John,
We are waiting for Microsoft to fix an issue that causes Custom Designers to not work in VisualStudio when working with a .NET Core project (Custom Component Designer (RootDesigner) not working with projects targeting > netcoreapp3.1 [Internal Reference ID: AR-24749]).
The current ETA for its release is VisualStudio v17.8 Preview 3. However, this release has kept on getting postponed by Microsoft, so it could also be moved to a later release.
Once a fix for the same gets released we’ll do the final implementation and testing for the same which will take some more weeks and we’ll release the fix with ActiveReports.
Currently, if the fix gets released with VS2022 v17.8 Preview 3 then we are expecting to release the fix with ActiveReports 18 v18.1.
Thank you for your patience.
Regards,
Anand
John.Reynolds
Posted 5 January 2024, 10:59 am EST
Thank you, this helps me see the light at the end of the tunnel!
Best,
-J
John.Reynolds
Posted 23 March 2026, 3:19 pm EST
It took until version 20.x, but it’s here now and working well in Visual Studio 2026. I was finally able to jettison the dotnet framework project required to do editing in all our section reports. What a huge relief!
anand.sinha
Posted 24 March 2026, 12:39 am EST
Hi John,
We’re glad to know that the latest Code-Based Section Report designer is working well with your project!
Please feel free to create a new case if you encounter any issues with the new designer or have any other problems, and we’ll be happy to help.
Regards,
Anand
