Active Report - page issues

Active Report - page issues

Posted by: hbkelkar on 14 July 2026, 2:56 am EST

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  hbkelkar

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  Posted 14 July 2026, 2:56 am EST

  Hello,
  
  I am using Active Reports 13x in my Visual Studio 2017 and Visual studio 2019 environments.
  
  I have two issues.
  
  I use Active Reports (code-based)
  
  A. In my visual studio (2017 & 2019) I cannot find “Report” menu for Designer screens
  
  I have checked few help articles but none worked.

  B. In a report design, I have designed the report in A4 paper size, Landscape orientation. All controls are well within the paper margin. Still my report prints one blank page.
  
  I have attached my designer file and code-behind.
  
  If Report Setting front-end menu not available, Where can i alter/Edit designer lines ?
  
  What is causing the second blank page.?
  
  (I have found a line in designer file which was showing paper kind as legal - I modified it as A4 - in the attached file)

  Thanks
  
  Hemanth Kelkarfeereceipt.zip

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  anand.sinha

  

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  Posted 14 July 2026, 6:21 am EST

  Hi Hemanth,

  The menu you see for Report Designer screens is the ‘Report Explorer’ window. To view it, you may use the ‘View > Other Windows’ option and then select the ‘Report Explorer’ option.

  However, if you are not seeing the ‘Report Explorer’ option in Visual Studio, the ActiveReports 13 Visual Studio extension may not be installed. In this case, please try reinstalling ActiveReports. After that, open your report designer in Visual Studio, and you should be able to open the ‘Report Explorer’ through ‘View > Other Windows’.

  For B, unfortunately, we were unable to run your report due to the data source being unavailable. Please try sharing a minimal runnable sample along with sample data so we can reproduce the issue on our end and further investigate it.

  Thanks,
  
  Anand

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  hbkelkar

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  Posted 16 July 2026, 12:36 pm EST - Updated 16 July 2026, 12:41 pm EST

  Hello Anand,
  
  Thanks for the quick resolution.
  
  I am using ActiveReports version 11.3.x

  Reinstalling ActiveReports solved the missing “Report” menu item in visual studio 2017 (ver : 15.9.4).
  
  But it is still missing in Visual studio 2019 (ver : 16.11.41).
  
  The Installed Products list in Visual Studio About form shows Active Reports 11.3x in my VS 2017 IDE, but this entry is still missing in VS 2019.
  
  Any update / package still missing here ?

  

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  anand.sinha

  

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  Posted 17 July 2026, 1:29 am EST

  Hi Hemanth,

  Unfortunately, ActiveReports 11 was out of maintenance before the release of Visual Studio 2019, so its extension is not available for the same. Visual Studio 2019 is supported with ActiveReports 13 and above.

  We’ll recommend you upgrade to the latest version of ActiveReports (i.e. v20) to get many more new features, bug fixes and priority support. You can download the same from here Download ActiveReports and try it free for the first 30 days!

  Regards,
  
  Anand