Data Dynamics Reports - Features

Data Dynamics Reports features a rich, embeddable, region-based report designer control for Windows Forms. It is tightly integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio to harness all the productivity you’ve achieved in the Visual Studio IDE. You can embed the same control in your own applications to provide a fully functional end user report designer to your users.

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Data Dynamics Reports features a powerful, easy-to-use Windows Azure-compatible Web report viewer component you can use in Web projects to display reports. It provides easy access to navigational features and a number of export features including a wide variety of documents and graphic formats. It also includes a rich report viewer for Windows with other advanced features such as Pan Mode, Snapshot mode, Preview mode, Copy and Zoom.

Data Dynamics Reports supports Windows Azure reporting in both partial trust and full trust modes.

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Data Dynamics Reports includes a new Excel Transformation Device that makes it possible to analyze numbers using the familiar Excel environment. More than a simple export, the Excel Transformation Device allows users to change their reports into useful Excel spreadsheets and take full advantage of all Excel has to offer. For example, developers can bind data to Excel charts or pivot tables, enabling users to see the display change as they perform what-if analysis.

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Data Dynamics Reports supports Microsoft's Report Definition Language (RDL) format, enabling developers who work in Microsoft SQL Server to use a reporting format they're already familiar with. In addition, Data Dynamics Reports extends RDL beyond what SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) supports, adding support for reporting themes, reporting templates, and data visualization.

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Data Dynamics Reports supports a wide range of data sources. Common data sources that are supported include SQL, ADO.NET DataSets, unbound data, ODBC, OleDb, Oracle, and XML. You can configure a data source within a report or store the connection information in a separate file and share it across multiple reports. Using an unbound data source, developers can create reports which pull data from in-memory collections.

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Data Dynamics Reports includes built-in KPI controls. For example, spark lines allow users to see trends while also viewing the primary data display. And bullet graphs give users an instantaneous view of how a KPI or other statistic is currently doing, broken down into two to three ranges and displaying an optional target—all in a space-saving display.

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Data Dynamics Reports includes data visualizers that make it easy to analyze business reports by highlighting key data elements, thus reducing the time and effort needed to make business decisions. For example, color scale maps a numeric value onto a range of colors, reducing the complexity of dealing with a large number of discrete data elements. Icon sets set off information with status flags and corresponding images, based on either absolute or calculated values. And range bars and data bars can be used to visually indicate numbers and number ranges, actual progress vs. planned progress, etc.

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Data Dynamics Reports includes a chart control that supports all of the most commonly used 2D and 3D chart types, including XY charts and financial charts. With advanced charting features like custom axes, annotations, markers, legends, and constant lines, you can create any chart you need. Using code, you can natively export charts to various image formats.

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Data Dynamics Reports offers Tables, Matrix, Banded Lists and Charts as part of report layout options. All of these can contain other report items such as text boxes, images, bar codes, sub reports, shapes, graphs, calendars and more. The Table data region has a static number of columns, and you can add group header and footer rows. The Matrix is a data region with dynamic numbers of rows and columns, and is similar in functionality to a cross tab or pivot table. The List is a freeform data region in which you can place other report items. The Banded List data region is the one which most closely resembles the ActiveReports design surface with bands of freeform sections.

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Data Dynamics Reports offers several features that help you to make reports interactive. Specify parameters to manipulate data. Add filters to datasets and data regions. Drill-Down Reports are supported via properties that allow you to toggle report items between visible and hidden. Use hyperlinks to drill through to other reports and to link to bookmarks. Add a Table of Contents to provide easy navigation.

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Data Dynamics Reports allows you to use expressions in all of your report items to show precisely the data you want to show, and exactly how you want to show it. You can manipulate data and concatenate strings with expressions. Use global values, such as the date or page number, as well as your collection of fields or parameters in expressions. Aggregate functions can be used in datasets, data regions and groups. Data visualization expressions help emphasize data in your reports based on any criteria you set.

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Data Dynamics Reports includes tools for exporting your reports to popular document formats and to a wide variety of image formats. You can use them in both Windows-based and Web-based applications. Provide export options for your users, or have your application create the exports automatically. With a separate DLL for each export format, you are free to use and deploy any combination.

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Reporting templates provide report authors with a consistent base layout to work from, as well as common data sources, data sets, report parameters, embedded images, themes, and custom code. Developers use these templates to give end users a set of content and formats they can start with. Report authors working on a suite of reports use them to create a consistent look across the entire suite.

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Theme support allows report designers to use a standard set of colors, fonts, and images throughout a set of documents—not only creating consistency across documents, but also enabling the look of a whole family of reports to be updated by changing just one theme file.

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The Data Dynamics Reports Viewer allows you to change a report's paper size and orientation, margins, number of pages per sheet, and even add watermarks. Select Print Preview to enable Page setup and printing options.

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Data Dynamics Reports includes built-in localization support for text boxes and images similar to the way Windows Forms localization works. It exposes a “Language” property that can be assigned a value from the dropdown list that results in the corresponding text or image resource for that language selected from the resource file.

Data Dynamics Reports includes a built-in Email rendering extension that makes it easy to email professional looking reports to a wide range of email clients without worrying about the appearance of the email. Internally, the email rendering extension creates an instance of the .NET MailMessage object and sends the email using the .NET API.

Data Dynamics Reports comes with utilities for converting from Microsoft Access, Crystal Reports and ActiveReports to Data Dynamics Reports (RDLX) reporting file formats.

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Data Dynamics Reports offers flexible, royalty-free deployment to as many users as you want, including the end user report designer component.