Archive for the ‘ActiveReports’ Category
ActiveReports 6 RC Available
Earlier this week the ActiveReports team made a Release Candidate available in the run-up to the final release of ActiveReports 6!
This release brings us closer to the final release of ActiveReports 6, and its coming soon!
A quick word about some great products
This week has been pretty exciting at GrapeCity. I started the week off by releasing Data Dynamics Analysis, the team is already working on some killer functionality I can’t wait to talk about it in a few months or so.
Next up, ActiveReports for .NET is in the running for the asp.netPRO Reader’s Choice Awards for 2009. Please take a moment to vote for us in the Printing and Reporting category.
GrapeCity and Data Dynamics have also won several awards from ComponentSource.
2008 Bestselling Products Awards
- ActiveReports for .NET—Ranked #2 in Top 5 Products
- ActiveReports COM/ActiveX—Ranked #26 in Top 50 Products
- Data Dynamics Reports—Ranked #100 in Top 100 Products
- I’m especially proud of this, as I’ve been on the Data Dynamics Reports team since March 2006 as an Assistant Product Manager and then as Product Manager. The product had already been in development for several years before I joined; but it’s still great to see something myself and the rest of the team have worked on sell so well.
2008 Bestselling Publisher Awards
- GrapeCity-Data Dynamics—Ranked #4 in Top 5 Publishers
- GrapeCity (Japan)—Ranked #5 in Top 5 Publishers
Lastly, Data Dynamics Analysis and Data Dynamics Reports are on sale for the rest of the month!
Save 33% on Data Dynamics Reports by using coupon code “903955CBD” and save 46% on Data Dynamics Analysis by using coupon code “AE0455CBD” at checkout!
“Those folks are smart”
Around the 35 minute mark of the Ken Getz interview on VSTO and Other Stuff on .NET Rocks Ken makes a comment that “Those folks are smart”. He’s referring to the ActiveReports developers that created the Access report import. I agree, the folks I work with at Data Dynamics are some of the best developers I know.
Using LINQ in ActiveReports
David, the TiredBlogger, shows us how to use LINQ as a data source in ActiveReports for .NET.
Jon, one of our support techs, did notice that David was using the Fields collection outside of the FetchData/DataInitialize event. Breaking one of our three rules for report design with ActiveReports. [Edit: I forgot to add this before hitting the publish button] I believe the correct way of doing this is to use bind the textbox to the field, then access the textbox’s Value property during the Format event.
Tip of the hat to Luc, for sending this to me.
