Design Rich Reports With ActiveReports.NET – Advanced Reporting for WPF Applications

Bring beautiful, interactive reporting to your WPF desktop applications. ActiveReports.NET delivers flexible and intuitive WPF reporting controls with full support for modern .NET and MVVM architecture.

  • Three designers: Visual Studio Report Designer, end-user WinForms designer, and a standalone desktop design tool

  • Leverage an extensive .NET API for custom report generation and data binding in WPF

  • Deliver pixel-perfect, responsive report viewing within your XAML-based UI

  • Lightweight, high-performance WPF report viewers for seamless integration

  • Supports multiple report types including Continuous, Paginated, Dashboard, and Banded List layouts with C#/VB.NET interoperability

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Designers and Viewers for Every WPF Reporting Scenario

ActiveReports.NET delivers powerful tools designed specifically for WPF developers who need elegant, interactive, and data-rich reports inside modern desktop applications.

  • WPF Report Viewer: Embed reporting and viewing directly into your XAML-based applications with full MVVM compatibility

  • Visual Studio Integration: Design, preview, and customize reports directly within your WPF project workflow

  • Standalone Designer: A full-featured desktop designer that lets developers and end-users build reports visually

  • Code-Based Design: Use C# or VB.NET to create reports programmatically for total flexibility and automation

Versatile Report Layouts for WPF Reporting

ActiveReports.NET provides powerful and customizable report layout options for WPF developers, allowing you to create elegant, interactive, and data-rich reports that align with your desktop application’s modern UI.

Interactive Reports and Dashboards for WPF Reporting

Transform your WPF applications into powerful data exploration tools. ActiveReports.NET enhances your reports with interactivity, letting users analyze information and uncover insights in a fluid, desktop-native environment.

  • Filtering, Sorting & Parameters: Provide dynamic report filters and parameters integrated with your WPF data binding

  • Drilldown & Drillthrough: Navigate between summaries and detailed reports while maintaining WPF’s smooth user experience

  • Animations: Incorporate natural transitions and responsive visual feedback for an immersive reporting interface

  • Bookmarks: Enable fast navigation through long or complex WPF reports

Customizability and Extensibility for WPF Applications

ActiveReports.NET provides WPF developers the flexibility to create fully branded and deeply integrated reporting solutions within modern desktop environments. Every report, viewer, and interaction can be customized to match your application’s design and architecture.

  • Designer & Viewer Customization: Blend seamlessly into your WPF UI with XAML-based styling and branding

  • Themes & Styles: Maintain visual consistency using reusable design themes across all WPF reports

  • Custom Data Providers: Bind to any data source, including Entity Framework, REST APIs, or custom collections

  • Custom Logic: Add dynamic behavior using expressions, .NET functions, or embedded scripting

  • .NET Integration & API: Extend and automate reporting with a complete API that integrates cleanly into WPF and MVVM workflows

Comprehensive Export Options for WPF Applications

ActiveReports.NET provides WPF developers with robust export capabilities designed for seamless integration into modern desktop reporting workflows. Users can easily share insights and reports across formats while maintaining visual fidelity.

WPF Reporting Top Features

Dynamic Reporting

Dynamic Reporting

ActiveReports.NET enables developers to create interactive reports that adapt to user needs. With tools like expressions, scripts, APIs, and code-based section reports, users can achieve fully dynamic reporting experiences.

Expressions let users and developers alike apply logic directly within the design surface for calculations, conditional formatting, visibility controls and more. This makes it easy to create responsive reports that adjust to the underlying data.

Scripts enable event-driven logic using VB.NET or C#, allowing developers to handle events like OnStart or OnFetchData to control layout, transform data, or adjust visibility on the fly.

For deeper customization, the ActiveReports API offers full programmatic control over reports. Developers can create, modify, and export reports at runtime, supporting integration with web, desktop, or cloud applications for personalized reporting.

Code-based section reports provide maximum flexibility, allowing developers to build reports entirely in C# or VB.NET. This approach is ideal for complex, logic-driven reports that require access to .NET features like loops, conditions, and reusable methods.

Together, these tools empower developers to create highly interactive reports that respond to data context, user input, and business logic.

Parameterized Reports

Parameterized Reports

Dynamic reports can be enhanced through the use of parameters, a powerful feature that allows end-users to interact with reports by providing input at runtime. Parameters act as prompts, enabling users to filter or adjust data to meet specific needs. By embedding parameters into your reports, you can offer a more tailored experience, displaying only the data that is relevant to the user’s preferences. For instance, users can select specific dates, categories, or regions, instantly updating the report’s content.

ActiveReports.NET simplifies the implementation of parameter-driven reports with built-in support for user-friendly prompts and dynamic filtering. Developers can configure single or multi-value parameters, integrate cascading parameters for hierarchical filtering, and even apply complex expressions for advanced customization. This approach not only improves report interactivity but also streamlines decision-making by delivering actionable insights.

Charts

Charts

ActiveReports.NET provides an extensive collection of 85 chart types, enabling developers to create visually engaging and data-rich reports. These charts span various categories to suit diverse reporting needs, including basic visualizations like Area Charts, Bar Charts, Column Charts, and Pie Charts, as well as more advanced options like Bubble Charts, Scatter Charts, and Financial Charts.

Each chart type is designed to showcase data trends and patterns effectively. For instance, Bubble Charts are ideal for displaying three-dimensional data points, while Financial Charts cater to stock market analysis with features such as candlestick and OHLC views. Whether your focus is on summarizing large datasets or highlighting intricate details, the charting capabilities in ActiveReports.NET ensure your reports are both insightful and professional. Explore all chart types and their customization options to bring your data to life.

Drill Down Reporting

Drill-Down Reporting

Drill-down functionality in reporting enhances interactivity by allowing users to explore data hierarchies seamlessly. It starts with an overview of the report, enabling users to focus on high-level insights. By clicking a '+' icon, users can expand specific sections to reveal detailed, granular data beneath the surface. This approach empowers users to dive deeper into areas of interest without overwhelming them with unnecessary details upfront.

In ActiveReports.NET, implementing drill-down reporting is straightforward, thanks to its intuitive design tools. By setting the Toggle property, developers can define which data sections are expandable and configure how users interact with the report. This feature is particularly valuable for creating dynamic reports, such as sales analyses, financial summaries, or inventory breakdowns, where users need to navigate through layers of data to uncover actionable insights efficiently.

Drill Through Reporting

Drill-Through Reporting

The Drill-Through feature in ActiveReports offers an interactive way to explore and analyze data by presenting the same dataset or a subset of it in a different layout, providing a more detailed or context-specific view. This powerful feature allows users to seamlessly navigate from a primary report to a related child report, enhancing the overall reporting experience.

By leveraging parameters, you can pass contextual data from the parent report to the child report, dynamically filtering content to display precisely what is needed. For example, clicking on a region in a sales summary report can open a detailed breakdown of sales for that region. This approach not only improves data accessibility but also streamlines decision-making by tailoring data visualization to the user’s specific needs, all without requiring separate report generation processes.

Sparklines

Sparklines

Enhance your .NET reports with embedded Sparklines to present data trends in a compact and visually appealing format. Sparklines are miniature charts that effectively summarize data, making them ideal for dashboards, reports, and other data-driven applications. ActiveReports.NET supports various Sparkline types, including Line, Column, Whisker, Area, and StackedBar, each designed to suit different visualization needs.

For instance, Line Sparklines are perfect for showcasing trends over time, while Column Sparklines highlight comparisons between discrete data points. Whisker Sparklines are useful for representing statistical data such as variability, and Area and StackedBar Sparklines provide intuitive representations of cumulative or categorized data.

Easy to integrate and customize, Sparklines empower you to convey insights at a glance, making your reports not only informative but also engaging and efficient.

Layers

Layers

Streamline your report design process by organizing controls into Layers in ActiveReports.NET. This feature ensures WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) output, maintaining precise alignment and organization across your reports. Layers allow you to manage related controls collectively, streamlining tasks like visibility toggles, layout adjustments, and rendering optimizations.

At runtime, grouped controls within a layer can be dynamically adjusted, enabling seamless modifications without disrupting the overall layout. For example, you can hide or display certain layers based on conditions, customize layouts for specific audiences, or display a control such as a watermark only when the report is being printed—all while preserving the integrity of your report structure.

Leverage Layers to maximize flexibility and efficiency in report design, ensuring professional, polished outputs every time.

Subreports

Subreports

Simplify your reporting workflow by seamlessly reusing existing reports or merging data from multiple sources into a unified report with subreports in ActiveReports.NET. Subreports allow you to embed existing reports within other reports, making it easy to combine various data views without duplicating effort. Whether you're building nested subreports or including external reports, any changes made to a subreport are instantly reflected everywhere it’s used, ensuring consistency across all your reporting needs.

Subreports are ideal for scenarios like displaying master-detail data, reusing standardized report components, or pulling together information from multiple databases or APIs into a unified presentation. With built-in features like parameter passing and flexible layouts, subreports provide a powerful solution to design complex, data-rich reports with ease and efficiency, all while reducing redundancy in your reporting workflows.

Sorting

Sorting

Interactive sorting is a powerful feature in ActiveReports that enhances the usability of tabular reports by allowing users to sort data dynamically within the report viewer. This functionality is particularly valuable when dealing with large datasets, enabling users to rearrange information based on their preferences without needing to regenerate the report. Implementing interactive sorting is straightforward in ActiveReports.NET.

You can add interactive sorting to a TextBox control to allow users to sort columns of data within a data region on a published report. Once set, the report viewer will display clickable sorting icons, letting users toggle between ascending and descending order in real time. This feature is ideal for creating user-friendly reports where flexibility and data exploration are key priorities, providing end-users with an intuitive way to organize data to suit their needs.

Grouping

Grouping

ActiveReports.NET provides robust support for grouping, sorting, and drill-down capabilities across various data regions, including Tables, Tablixes, Charts, and more. Whether you're building a simple tabular report or a sophisticated multi-level report with nested groups, sorted data, and interactive drill-down features, the process is seamless. By configuring just a single property, you can enable complex grouping scenarios to organize data hierarchically.

Sorting can be applied to ensure your data is presented logically, while drill-down functionality adds interactivity, allowing users to expand or collapse sections for deeper insights. These features empower developers to design dynamic reports that cater to diverse business needs, from summarizing high-level data to providing granular, actionable insights.

Barcodes

Barcodes

ActiveReports empowers developers to enrich their .NET applications with robust barcode capabilities, offering over 120 barcode symbologies to address diverse business needs. From widely-used options like QR codes, Code 128, and Data Matrix to specialized symbologies such as GS1 DataBar and MicroPDF417, the platform ensures compatibility with various industries and workflows.

Barcodes in ActiveReports.NET are easy to integrate and highly customizable, enabling you to adjust size, alignment, color, and encoding properties to match your project’s design and functional requirements. Whether generating shipping labels, inventory tags, or scannable IDs, ActiveReports.NET simplifies the process with its user-friendly drag-and-drop design interface.

Explore how ActiveReports.NET streamlines barcode generation while ensuring high-quality outputs and seamless integration into your applications.

Web Report Designer

Web Report Designer

The End-User Report Designer for Web is an embeddable component available for ASP.NET, supporting a wide range of frontend solutions such as MVC, Blazor, Angular, React, and Vue. The Web Report Designer brings rich report design functionality to your web applications, supporting all major browsers. Customize to suit the security and functionality you want your users to have for ad hoc report design.

Web Report Viewer

Web Report Viewer

The Web Report Viewer for ActiveReports.NET enables seamless viewing of reports in your web applications. Designed for modern frameworks like ASP.NET, Blazor, Angular, React, and Vue, it offers WYSIWYG rendering, built-in interactivity, and export options. Easily integrate a feature-rich report viewer into your web solutions for an optimized user experience.

Desktop Report Designer

Desktop Report Designer

The ActiveReports.NET Desktop Report Designer for WinForms offers an intuitive, drag-and-drop design experience, supporting advanced customization, multi-section layouts, and complex data visualizations. Empower developers and end-users to build sophisticated reports effortlessly within a familiar desktop environment.

Desktop Report Viewer

Desktop Report Viewer

The ActiveReports.NET Desktop Viewer provides a seamless way to display and interact with reports within WinForms and WPF applications. Featuring a customizable toolbar, advanced navigation options, and export capabilities, it delivers a polished user experience.

Standalone Desktop Designer

Standalone Desktop Designer

The Standalone Desktop Designer in ActiveReports.NET offers a feature-rich, independent environment for designing complex, data-driven reports. Ideal for developers, it supports advanced layout options, scripting, and integration with diverse data sources.

Visual Studio Integrated Report Designer

Visual Studio Integrated Report Designer

ActiveReports offers an integrated designer that lets you create report layouts in Visual Studio and edit them at design time, visually, or through code.

Create Reports in Code

Create Reports in Code

ActiveReports.NET offers extensive API support for creating reports programmatically. Define layouts, bind data, and generate dynamic reports entirely in code, giving developers full control over every aspect of report creation.

Web Report Designer

Web Report Designer

Empower your end-users to create ad-hoc reports effortlessly within your ASP.NET MVC, Blazor, Angular, React, and Vue web applications with the fully embeddable ActiveReports.NET Web Designer. This component allows non-technical users to design professional-grade, data-driven reports without writing a single line of code. Its intuitive drag-and-drop interface streamlines the report-building process, while built-in wizards guide users step-by-step, ensuring a smooth and efficient experience.

The designer includes essential tools like the toolbox, properties panel, report explorer, and grouping panels, giving users full control over report elements and data organization. The familiar, user-friendly UI ensures quick adoption, reducing training time and increasing productivity. Seamlessly integrate the Web Designer into your application to offer robust, customizable reporting capabilities that adapt to your users' needs—empowering them to visualize and share insights independently.

Web Report Viewer

Web Report Viewer

The ActiveReports.NET Web Report Viewer is a versatile, embeddable component designed for modern web applications, supporting a wide range of frameworks, including ASP.NET, Blazor, Angular, React, and Vue. It delivers an immersive WYSIWYG rendering experience, allowing users to view reports exactly as intended, regardless of device or browser.

Enhance user interactivity with built-in features such as drill-through, parameterized reports, and sorting, empowering end-users to explore data dynamically. The viewer includes robust export options for various formats like PDF, Excel, Word, and more, making sharing and further analysis seamless. Its highly customizable API allows developers to tailor the viewer's functionality and appearance to match specific application requirements. With ActiveReports.NET -transform data into actionable insights with ease.

Desktop Report Designer

Desktop Report Designer

The WinForms Desktop Report Designer in ActiveReports.NET provides a comprehensive design tool for building powerful, data-rich reports. Featuring a drag-and-drop interface, the designer allows you to create multi-section layouts, integrate complex visualizations, and add dynamic expressions without extensive coding knowledge.

The robust set of controls, such as tables, charts, and data-bound lists, ensures flexibility for diverse reporting needs. Advanced features like subreports, grouping, and conditional formatting make it easy to design tailored, professional-grade reports. Ideal for both developers and end-users, the designer seamlessly integrates into desktop applications, enabling efficient report creation and editing within a familiar Windows interface.

Desktop Report Viewer

Desktop Report Viewer

The Desktop Viewer for offers a user-friendly solution for embedding report viewing functionality into WinForms and WPF applications. It supports interactive features like drill-through, parameterized reports, and search, enhancing user engagement and data exploration.

A customizable toolbar provides quick access to functions like export, printing, and navigation, while support for multiple formats ensures compatibility with varied reporting needs. With WYSIWYG rendering and optimized performance, the Desktop Viewer delivers professional-grade output that meets the demands of modern desktop applications.

Standalone Desktop Designer

Standalone Desktop Designer

The Standalone Desktop Designer for ActiveReports.NET is a fully independent report authoring tool that allows users to design complex, professional-grade reports without requiring additional software. Featuring a drag-and-drop interface, it supports intricate layouts, scripting for dynamic content, and a wide array of controls, including charts, tables, and data-bound lists.

With robust data-binding capabilities, the designer can connect to SQL, JSON, REST APIs, and other sources to create highly customized, data-driven reports. Advanced features such as scripting, conditional formatting, and subreports give users unparalleled control over report design. The Standalone Designer is a powerful solution for both developers and business users seeking a dedicated environment for creating tailored, pixel-perfect reports.

Visual Studio Integrated Report Designer

Visual Studio Integrated Report Designer

The Visual Studio-based Report Designer seamlessly integrates with the leading .NET Integrated Development Environment (IDE), providing a familiar and efficient design experience for developers. This designer leverages Visual Studio’s toolboxes and properties windows, enabling intuitive drag-and-drop placement of report controls directly onto the design surface. Developers can customize and enhance reports by building code-based functions in the code-behind file, allowing advanced logic and dynamic content generation. The designer supports a wide range of report types and layouts, including tabular, hierarchical, and graphical presentations, ensuring versatility for various reporting needs.

This robust integration is available in both the Professional and Standard editions of ActiveReports.NET, offering a powerful solution for creating .NET reports directly within Visual Studio. Its deep integration enhances productivity and simplifies complex report development workflows.

Create Reports in Code

Create Reports in Code

With ActiveReports.NET, developers can create powerful, dynamic reports programmatically using its extensive API. This approach is ideal for scenarios requiring custom logic or dynamic generation of layouts and data at runtime.

Developers can define report layouts, data bindings, and formatting entirely in code, leveraging object-oriented programming for maximum flexibility. Features like runtime data sources, conditional logic, and script-based expressions allow for advanced customization and interactivity. Whether integrating reporting functionality into applications or generating on-the-fly reports, ActiveReports.NET provides the tools needed to create high-quality, data-rich reports programmatically.

Offer Ad-Hoc Reporting to End-Users

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.

Extensible APIs

Extensible APIs

Control runtime report rendering using our extensible API. Customize report viewers, designers, and report data regions for a complete white-labeled experience.

Branch Out With Multiple Report Types

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.

Design Once, Use Everywhere

Design Once, Use Everywhere

Reports designed with any of our report designers can be used with our other plentiful designer and viewer options in both desktop and web applications.

Cross-Platform Reporting

Cross-Platform Reporting

Take .NET reporting to the next level by delivering rich, interactive reports under cloud services, such as Azure or AWS. With no reliance on GDI+ and easy DevOps integration, ActiveReports.NET makes deployment on Linux and macOS a breeze without complicated systems configuration.

Rich Report Controls

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.NET provides the means to design reports for any business need.

Royalty-Free Deployment

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.

Reliability You Can Trust

Reliability You Can Trust

ActiveReports has been a pioneering reporting solution since 1998. It introduced 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, an extensive reporting experience with rich controls, advanced features, and the latest tech.

Plug and Play Connectivity

Plug and Play Connectivity

Create reusable connections to ODBC, OLEDB, XML, Web Services, Data Objects, and more, even if you can't write a database query. Mix multiple sources in a single project and share reports for optimal efficiency.

Report Templates

Report Templates

Create dynamic templates called Master Reports that can be inherited and locked based on the user. This is a quick way for end-users to start creating or modifying reports with the easy-to-use web report designer.

Interactive Runtime Report Filtering

Interactive Runtime Report Filtering

Explore the dynamic data analysis capabilities of the Interactive Filtering feature in ActiveReports.NET!

  • Clickable report items directly in the report preview

  • Dynamically change displayed data at runtime on click

  • Export reflects changes made by user interaction

Customize Components

Customize Components

Customize the end-user report designers and .NET report viewers for your applications.

  • Add or remove buttons, toolbars

  • Enable or disable overwriting or saving report

  • Apply corporate branding and styling

Offer Ad-Hoc Reporting to End-Users

Offer Ad-Hoc Reporting to End-Users

Enhance your desktop or web applications with a powerful and intuitive reporting tool by embedding the customizable End-User Report Designer component. This feature empowers your users to create ad hoc reports tailored to their specific needs, ensuring a more personalized and efficient reporting experience.

With its drag-and-drop interface, users can easily design reports, add data fields, apply custom formatting, and preview results in real time—all without extensive technical expertise. The component seamlessly integrates into your existing solution, offering flexibility for developers to align it with application workflows and branding.

Whether your users need to generate simple tabular reports or complex visualizations, the End-User Report Designer delivers versatility and control. By including this functionality, you enable your users to make data-driven decisions faster and with greater confidence.

Extensible APIs

Extensible APIs

Take control of runtime report rendering with our robust and extensible API, offering unparalleled flexibility for tailoring your reporting applications. With this API, you can seamlessly customize report viewers, designers, and data regions to match your unique requirements. Whether you need to bind dynamic data, configure layout elements, or implement interactive features, the API empowers you to create a fully personalized, white-labeled reporting solution.

Enhance the end-user experience by adapting report viewers to your application's branding and integrating custom workflows into the designer. Leverage advanced data-binding techniques, including dynamic fields and parameter-driven filtering, to generate reports that adapt to user input in real-time.

Our API is your gateway to building sophisticated, user-centric reporting applications that seamlessly blend into your existing ecosystem.

Branch Out With Multiple Report Types

Branch Out With Multiple Report Types

When building a robust report library, ActiveReports.NET offers unparalleled flexibility with its three distinct report types: layout-driven Page Reports, scrolling RDL Reports, and code-based Section Reports. Page Reports are ideal for pixel-perfect, highly formatted designs where layout precision is critical, such as invoices or forms. RDL Reports provide a dynamic, data-driven scrolling experience, making them perfect for dashboards or reports with extensive datasets that benefit from interactivity.

For developers seeking full control over report generation through code, Section Reports offer a programmatic approach, enabling fine-grained customization and rapid prototyping.

Each report type is designed to address specific use cases, giving you the tools to meet diverse reporting needs with ease. Together, they form a powerful suite for creating scalable, professional-grade reports that can be tailored to any application.

Design Once, Use Everywhere

Design Once, Use Everywhere

With ActiveReports.NET, reports created using the versatile Standalone Report Designer can seamlessly integrate into a wide range of desktop and web applications. The Standalone Designer offers an intuitive interface and advanced design capabilities, allowing users to create reports tailored to their specific needs. These reports are fully compatible with applications built on popular frameworks, ensuring smooth integration regardless of your tech stack.

Whether you're building a .NET desktop application, deploying web-based solutions, or embedding reporting functionality into hybrid environments, reports designed with ActiveReports.NET maintain consistent performance and presentation. Developers can leverage the platform’s robust export options, ensuring compatibility across multiple formats like PDF, Excel, and HTML. This flexibility empowers teams to deliver professional-grade reporting experiences while simplifying workflows and expanding the reach of their reporting solutions.

Cross Platform Reporting

Cross-Platform Reporting

Elevate your .NET reporting capabilities with ActiveReports.NET by delivering dynamic, interactive reports seamlessly under cloud services like Azure and AWS. Designed for modern developers, ActiveReports.NET eliminates reliance on GDI+, enabling smooth deployment across Linux and macOS environments without the need for complex system configurations. This flexibility makes it easier than ever to align with evolving business demands and the shift toward cross-platform solutions.

ActiveReports.NET simplifies the integration of reporting into your DevOps pipeline, ensuring streamlined deployments and consistent performance across platforms. Whether hosting on virtual machines, containers, or serverless architectures, it empowers developers to focus on delivering value rather than managing dependencies. Take full advantage of the platform-agnostic design and cloud-friendly features to enhance your .NET applications and provide users with a superior reporting experience.

Rich Report Controls

Rich Report Controls

Transform your data into powerful insights with ActiveReports.NET’s extensive library of feature-rich controls. Whether you need to display trends, comparisons, or detailed metrics, our tools have you covered. Choose from a wide range of visualization options, including charts, tables, tablix, barcodes, sparklines, and maps, to bring clarity and impact to your reports. These controls enable you to present data in meaningful, engaging formats that cater to diverse audiences and business goals.

Paired with the flexibility of multiple report types—such as paginated, continuous, or interactive layouts—ActiveReports.NET empowers you to create customized solutions for any business scenario. From financial dashboards to operational summaries, product catalogs, and beyond, ActiveReports is your one-stop platform for designing reports that are visually compelling and highly functional, ensuring your data tells the story you need.

Royalty-Free Deployment

Royalty-Free Deployment

Easily distribute reports within your JavaScript, ASP.NET, WPF, or WinForms applications without incurring extra licensing costs. With runtime royalty-free deployment, you can share reports without worrying about user fees or Client Access Licenses (CALs). This ensures seamless distribution while keeping costs predictable.

Additionally, empower your users with customizable end-user report designers, enabling them to create and manage reports on-demand. These robust tools can be freely integrated into your applications, offering an intuitive interface for crafting tailored reports. Whether your application serves internal teams or external clients, this flexibility promotes user autonomy and streamlines workflows.

By eliminating licensing barriers, you gain the freedom to deliver a comprehensive reporting experience, enhancing the value of your applications without compromising on cost efficiency or user satisfaction.

Reliability You Can Trust

Reliability You Can Trust

ActiveReports has been a trailblazer in the reporting solutions space since its inception in 1998, setting the stage for innovation in software development. It introduced the first reporting tool designed to work seamlessly within the Visual Basic IDE, revolutionizing how developers created and managed reports.

Not stopping there, ActiveReports broke new ground by launching the first third-party designer integrated into the .NET version of Visual Studio, cementing its place as a trusted solution for developers worldwide. Nearly three decades later, ActiveReports continues to empower developers and users alike with an extensive reporting ecosystem.

Offering advanced features, rich controls, and cutting-edge technology, ActiveReports ensures you can build sophisticated, dynamic reports tailored to modern application needs. Innovation, reliability, and user empowerment remain at the heart of our mission to deliver unparalleled reporting solutions.

Plug and Play Connectivity

Plug and Play Connectivity

Simplify and streamline your reporting process by creating reusable connections to various data sources, such as ODBC, OLEDB, XML, Web Services, Data Objects, and more — all without requiring database query expertise. This feature empowers users of all skill levels to integrate diverse data seamlessly, making report creation faster and more accessible. Combine data from multiple sources within a single project to provide comprehensive insights and richer reports.

By consolidating and reusing data connections, you not only save valuable time but also ensure consistency across reports. Share these reports effortlessly with team members to foster collaboration and enhance efficiency across projects. Whether you’re managing enterprise-level datasets or smaller projects, this capability optimizes workflows, enabling you to focus on delivering impactful, data-driven results.

Report Templates

Report Templates

Create dynamic templates called Master Reports to streamline report creation and ensure consistency across your organization. With these templates, you can embed essential data and design elements—such as logos, headers, footers, and predefined layouts—providing users with a ready-to-use foundation for report design. Each template can include reusable components like common data sources, visual styles, and report configurations, enabling users to focus on content rather than structure.

The inheritance feature allows templates to be applied to any content report, ensuring uniformity and reducing redundant work. Administrators can set file edit permissions to 'Read Only' for specific users or groups, locking critical elements while allowing others to make necessary modifications. This approach simplifies the user experience, making it easy for teams to create, modify, and share professional-quality reports using an intuitive web report designer.

Interactive Runtime Report Filtering

Interactive Runtime Report Filtering

Discover the power of dynamic data analysis with the Interactive Filtering feature in ActiveReports.NET. This innovative capability empowers users to interact directly with reports, making data exploration more intuitive and responsive.

With Interactive Filtering, users can click on specific report items, such as charts, tables, or text, directly in the report preview. These clicks dynamically modify the data displayed in real time, offering personalized insights without the need to regenerate the report. Whether you’re analyzing sales trends, employee performance, or customer feedback, this feature ensures that users can drill down into the details most relevant to them.

Additionally, any changes made through user interactions are seamlessly reflected in exported reports, ensuring the outputs are tailored to the viewer’s unique analysis. Enhance decision-making with ActiveReports.NET’s interactive and user-driven reporting tools!

Customize Components

Customize Components

Take control of your application's user experience by customizing the end-user report designers and .NET report viewers to fit your specific requirements. Tailor the interface by adding or removing buttons, toolbars, and other UI elements to create a streamlined environment that aligns with your workflow.

Enhance functionality by enabling or disabling features such as report overwriting or saving, ensuring users interact with reports in ways that maintain data integrity and meet your security policies.

Further elevate the experience by applying corporate branding and styling to the UI. Incorporate your company's logo, color schemes, and typography to create a cohesive look that reflects your brand identity. These customizations not only improve usability but also deliver a professional, branded experience that resonates with end users.

WYSIWYG Report Layout

WYSIWYG Report Layout

With defined boundaries for each report item, Page reports generate a pixel-perfect WYSIWYG report.

Bookmarks

Bookmarks

Bookmarks allow your users to jump to a section of your report. They are, essentially, hyperlinks that move the user to another area within the same report. Bookmarks are most useful with long reports such as ledgers and catalogs.

Table of Contents

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

Aggregates

Create financial .NET accounting reports with ActiveReports using a table, and Tablix controls that have built-in support for aggregates and calculated fields to summarize accounting data.

Nested Controls

Nested Controls

Group one control inside another. Controls, such as a textbox, table, Tablix, and shapes, allow you to place other controls inside them. You can nest a chart, image, or even a table inside another table.

Watermark

Watermark

Create real-world reports for .NET with ActiveReports. This report shows how to add a watermark to a legal and sensitive document such as government forms, agreements, acquisitions, and mergers.

Master Reports

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

Mail Merge

Embed HTML text in your .NET reports using ActiveReports FormattedText control. As a versatile reporting control, Formatted Text is frequently used to create mail merge reports.

Maps

Maps

Use maps in your .NET reports to deliver regional information. ActiveReports maps use multiple layers (Polygon, Point, Line, and Tile) to display data.

Bullets

Bullets

Bullet graphs, or bullet charts, are a great way to show progress toward a certain goal and serve as an alternative to dashboard gauges and meters.

Acroforms

Acroforms

Creating editable PDFs, or PDF Forms, is easy with ActiveReports' InputField control. The InputField can be set to Textbox or Checkbox.

Hierarchical Layout

Hierarchical Layout

Create hierarchical, tree-view type, reports using the List, Table, Tablix, and BandedList controls. Embed one or more controls within each data region with grouping enabled and optionally set drill-down functionality.

RTL and Localization

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.

List

List

Easily build a free-form layout for repeating data records using the List control. With the Detail Grouping property, the List control will iterate its layout until the grouped data is exhausted.

Multi-Column Reports

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.

WYSIWYG Report Layout

WYSIWYG Report Layout

Page reports in ActiveReports generate pixel-perfect, WYSIWYG reports by defining clear boundaries for each report item. This ensures the final report layout matches the design exactly, with every element precisely placed. The WYSIWYG nature means users see the report as it will appear when printed or displayed, with no unexpected shifts or distortions.

Form-based reports showcase how text boxes, images, and labels are fixed in position, ideal for scenarios like invoices or forms where exact alignment is critical. This approach guarantees consistency and precision across different devices and output formats. The defined boundaries also allow for detailed formatting control, ensuring professional-quality, accurate reports tailored to specific design requirements.

Bookmarks

Bookmarks

Bookmarks are a powerful feature that enhance navigation within reports by allowing users to quickly jump to specific sections. Essentially, they function like hyperlinks but within the same report, providing an efficient way to navigate long or complex documents. By clicking on a bookmark, users are directed to a particular part of the report without having to scroll or manually search for it.

This functionality is especially useful for lengthy reports, such as financial ledgers, product catalogs, or detailed case studies, where the volume of content can be overwhelming. Bookmarks help users find key sections in an instant, improving the user experience by saving time and reducing frustration.

ActiveReports.NET showcases how bookmarks can be integrated into an interactive report. By using a simple click, users can easily move between different sections, allowing for smoother and more intuitive navigation. This feature proves invaluable in reports with many pages or complex data sets, ensuring that users stay focused on the content that matters most to them.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Efficiently organize and present your report's structure using a dynamic Table of Contents (TOC) feature. With ActiveReports.NET, you can display a well-structured hierarchy of heading levels and labels directly within the report body, ensuring readers can navigate complex documents effortlessly.

Each entry in the TOC is linked to its corresponding section, with page numbers dynamically updated during report generation, ensuring accuracy even as content changes. This capability is particularly useful for creating professional, user-friendly reports with multiple sections, such as financial statements, product catalogs, or technical documentation.

Explore ActiveReports.NET to see how this feature works in real time and learn how it improves report navigation. Transform your reports into highly accessible and structured documents, enhancing the overall user experience.

Aggregates

Aggregates

With ActiveReports.NET, creating professional financial accounting reports is both powerful and straightforward. Using the Table and Tablix controls, you can design interactive reports that effectively summarize accounting data with built-in support for aggregates and calculated fields. These controls enable seamless grouping, sorting, and aggregation of data, making them ideal for financial reporting scenarios such as income statements, balance sheets, and pivot-style summaries.

For example, the Complex Pivot Table demo illustrates how to leverage the Tablix control to create pivot-like reports, dynamically organizing data across rows and columns while applying calculations to display totals, averages, or other key metrics. Whether you are handling transactional records or high-level summaries, ActiveReports empowers developers to build accurate, data-rich reports tailored to business needs.

Nested Controls

Nested Controls

Designing dynamic and visually appealing reports often involves grouping one control inside another to create nested structures. In ActiveReports.NET, this feature allows developers to combine various controls seamlessly for complex layouts. For example, controls like TextBoxes, Tables, Tablixes, and Shapes support the placement of other controls inside them. This capability enables creative report design, such as embedding a chart within a table to display visual data alongside textual descriptions.

Similarly, you can nest images or even entire tables within another table, enhancing report readability and structure. The Nested Controls Demo demonstrates this concept effectively, showing how nested layouts help in presenting data hierarchically. This approach streamlines the design process, ensuring a professional appearance and maintaining logical organization within the report.

Watermark

Watermark

Create professional, real-world reports for .NET applications using ActiveReports. In this Watermark Demo, learn how to add watermarks to legal and sensitive documents, enhancing their security and compliance. For example, when dealing with government forms, agreements, acquisitions, or mergers, watermarks play a vital role in maintaining confidentiality and authenticity.

This demonstration highlights a practical scenario involving a SEC Form D document, showcasing how to effectively apply a custom watermark. With ActiveReports, developers can easily integrate this feature into their applications, ensuring sensitive information remains protected.

Whether you need a simple "Confidential" stamp or a detailed branding element, ActiveReports provides the flexibility to design and implement watermarks tailored to your requirements. Discover how this tool empowers .NET developers to create secure, professional-grade reports that meet real-world business needs.

Master Reports

Master Reports

Dynamic templates offer a streamlined approach to maintaining consistency across reports while empowering users with controlled customization options. With ActiveReports.NET, you can create master reports that define branding, layouts, themes, data sources, and reusable code.

These master reports act as templates, allowing you to lock specific areas—such as headers, footers, or logos—ensuring consistency with corporate branding guidelines. At the same time, you can grant users the flexibility to modify predefined sections, such as data content or filters.

This functionality is particularly useful in scenarios requiring uniform report styling across an organization or application while tailoring data presentation to specific needs. The Master-Detail example highlights how to apply such templates efficiently, combining fixed design elements with user-editable content for a seamless, brand-aligned reporting experience.

Mail Merge

Mail Merge

Embed HTML text in your .NET reports seamlessly using the FormattedText control in ActiveReports. This versatile reporting feature is ideal for creating dynamic, professional-quality mail merge reports. By leveraging the FormattedText control, you can integrate richly styled HTML text, such as personalized messages, formatted tables, or dynamic data fields, directly into your report templates.

The control supports extensive HTML formatting, allowing for enhanced text customization to match branding or specific design needs. Its flexibility makes it particularly valuable for scenarios like generating customer-specific letters, invoices, or promotional materials.

Maps

Maps

Visualize Regional Data Effectively with Maps in .NET Reports. Enhance your .NET reports by incorporating interactive maps to deliver detailed regional insights. With ActiveReports.NET, you can leverage powerful mapping features to present geographical data with precision. The map control supports multiple data layers, including Polygon, Point, Line, and Tile, enabling you to customize how data is displayed based on your requirements.

For example, use polygons to highlight regions, lines to represent routes, and points to mark specific locations. The tile layer provides an interactive map base, offering context for your data. You can further enhance visualization with features like Color Rules, which dynamically apply colors to map elements based on data values, as showcased in the Color Rule Demo.

Bullets

Bullets

Bullet Graphs, also known as bullet charts, offer an effective way to visually track progress toward specific goals. Compact and data-rich, these visualizations serve as an excellent alternative to traditional dashboard gauges and meters, providing a clear, space-efficient representation of performance metrics.

A bullet graph consists of a central bar that indicates the primary value, typically progress or performance, and is set against a background that represents qualitative ranges such as "poor," "average," and "excellent." It may also include a marker to denote the target value, making it easy to compare actual performance against goals.

ActiveReports.NET enhances bullet graphs with flexibility, allowing seamless integration into tables for detailed reporting. Users can configure properties like scale ranges, colors, and orientation to suit their needs, ensuring precise and insightful data representation in any report.

Acroforms

Acroforms

Creating editable PDFs, or PDF Forms, is seamless with ActiveReports' InputField control. This powerful feature allows you to transform static reports into interactive documents. With the InputField control, you can easily create fields for user input, including Textbox and Checkbox options, enabling a wide range of applications like surveys, order forms, or rental agreements.

For example, the Car Rental Form Demo demonstrates how InputFields can capture user details such as names, contact information, and rental preferences. Textbox fields allow users to enter free-form text, while Checkbox fields provide a simple way to make selections.

Once the form is completed, users can save the document with their input intact, making it ideal for collecting and sharing information electronically. ActiveReports streamlines the process, helping you create professional, editable PDF forms effortlessly.

Hierarchical Layout

Hierarchical Layout

Design hierarchical, tree-view-style reports using ActiveReports.NET's versatile List, Table, Tablix, and BandedList controls. These controls allow you to group data into meaningful structures, making it easy to represent complex, nested relationships visually. By embedding one or more data-bound controls within each data region, you can effectively organize and display parent-child relationships in your reports.

Enable grouping to automatically arrange your data hierarchically, and optionally add drill-down functionality to give users an interactive experience, letting them expand or collapse nodes to view detailed data as needed. These features are especially useful for creating reports like organizational charts, product categories, or transaction histories. Learn how to configure these controls and achieve dynamic layouts through step-by-step guides and demos.

RTL and Localization

RTL and Localization

Ensure inclusivity with ActiveReports’ robust localization support! ActiveReports fully supports both Left-to-Right (LTR) and Right-to-Left (RTL) text directions, ensuring accessibility for global audiences. This feature is critical for applications catering to languages like Arabic, Hebrew, or Persian, which use RTL text flow.

ActiveReports.NET supports English, Japanese, and simplified Chinese localizations by default, and developers can easily localize it to any desired language by editing JSON files for web components, and satellite assemblies for .NET applications.

Through straightforward property adjustments, ActiveReports enables seamless adaptation of UI components to match the desired language and cultural preferences. For instance, designers and viewers automatically adjust text alignment, control positions, and layout flow based on the specified RTL settings.

Lists

List

Create Flexible Data Layouts with the List Control in ActiveReports.NET. Effortlessly design free-form layouts for repeating data records using the versatile List control in ActiveReports.NET.

Ideal for scenarios requiring customized data presentations, the List control allows you to structure your data with precision and creativity. By leveraging the Detail Grouping property, you can organize and iterate through grouped data dynamically. This feature ensures that the layout repeats for each record in the dataset until all grouped data is displayed, providing a seamless and efficient way to present complex information.

For example, in the Top Movies Demo, the List control is used to showcase movie data in a visually appealing format. Dive deeper into how to configure the List control by exploring the documentation. Transform your reports into interactive, customized layouts with ease!

Multi-Column Reports

Multi-Column Reports

Creating multi-column layouts in your reports enhances the visual structure, similar to designing documents in applications like Microsoft Word. With ActiveReports.NET, you can easily divide a report page into multiple columns to improve readability and optimize space usage. This feature is particularly useful for displaying content such as lists, catalogs, or articles in a well-organized manner.

This demo demonstrates a two-column layout, where the report’s table content flows seamlessly across both columns. This approach not only makes the report visually appealing but also ensures that information is efficiently distributed within the available space. Whether you're building professional reports, newsletters, or detailed catalogs, multi-column layouts empower you to create polished and user-friendly designs with ease using ActiveReports.NET.

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