Activereports 7.0 report control version Comparison

Author: zhuhm Source: hudu Control Network

ActivereportsIs an industry-leading. NET Report tool that supports Silverlight, winforms, ASP. NET, and Windows azure. It perfectly inherits from Visual Studio and provides flexible and rich programming interfaces. Activereports reports are classified into standard and professional editions. Today, let's take a look at activereports.
Major differences between the 7.0 Standard Edition and the Professional Edition:

Activereports report control version comparison The following table lists the main differences between activereports 7.0 Standard Edition and Professional Edition

Designer		Standard Edition	Professional Edition
Regional Report	You can design a report based on the regional layout. This design method is similar to the report function of access. In addition to the detail area, you can also add a header and footer, as well as any number of grouping headers and grouping tail areas.
Page report	You can use tables, charts, matrix, list, and more controls to create a report layout in a fixed or continuous page layout report engine.
Layout	Use bar partitions similar to access reports, including reports, page information, multi-header, multi-Table tail, and report content.
Layout Control	Label, Textbox, checkbox, RichTextBox, shape, picture, line, pagebreak, barcode, subreport, oleobject, chartcontrol, reportinfo, crosssectionline (new), crosssectionbox (new)
Page report data display control	Table, matrix, list, sparkline, calendar, bandelist
XML layout file (RPX)	RPX layout files support saving layout information to external files
Style and settings	Save the report style to an external file in the global Settings dialog box, which facilitates sharing and consistency of the report style.
Script	Supports C # scripts and VB. NET scripts.
Design Features	Automatic alignment (new), zoom in/out, formatting, element alignment, up/down order, element list, Unbound Domain, parameter settings
Report dashboard	If you have designed a report template, you can directly inherit the report template when you complete other reports with similar structures.
Controls for end users	Provides the designer, report resource manager, toolbox, and other controls to help you create a designer that is released to the end user and distribute it for free.
Silverlight report Browser
Silverlight report browser function	The flexible and easy-to-use Silverlight report browser control supports localization, customization, PDF printing, and out-of-browser mode, allowing you to easily browse report content. The Silverlight report browser control provides functions such as Report Content Retrieval, runtime parameter settings, single-page/continuous page browsing, scaling, In-page navigation, content directory tree, And thumbnail. It allows developers to load and display a report file by means of HTTP processing programs and file streams, and supports adding custom toolbar buttons, custom topic styles, and loading XML templates; supported in multiple languages: English (default), Chinese, Japanese, Russian, etc.
Windows Forms report Browser
Browser Functions	Print; copy to cropping Board; search; select from single/Multi-page/continuous pages; scale down; multi-page browsing; add comments; output; view page thumbnails; hyperlink; toolbar Customization
Input and Output
Import report	Supports importing reports from Crystal Reports and access
Data	Supports ADO. NET data engines, ADO. NET data types (dataset, datatable, datareader, dataview), ODP. Net (Oracle Data Engine), XML files, and custom unbound data
Export	It includes multiple output filters, such as PDF, HTML, Excel, text, Tiff, RTF, and RDF. Among them, RDF is the format of activereports report files.
Print	Can control the size, direction, binding mode, dual-sided printing, layout, paper tray
PDF output
EUDC	Support output of End User custom characters
Japanese	Supports font embedding and font selection	* 1
	Support for bold
	Italics supported
Multiple Languages	Supports fonts in multiple languages	* 2
Digital Signature (new)	Digitally sign the output PDF file to ensure file authenticity
Time stamp (new)	Add a time stamp to the output PDF File
Web
Support for Microsoft cloud	Ar7 supports both completely trusted and completely trusted windows azure models. The PDF and Excel export functions work in the not fully trusted mode, but some functions are only supported in the fully trusted mode.
Moderate ASP. NET Trust	Activereports 7 supports moderate trust in ASP. NET and helps multiple applications run on one shared server.
Web Report Browser	HTML report browser, which supports searching and turning pages
	The flash report browser (new) supports printing, specifying page printing, retrieval, single-page/Multi-page/continuous page mode, shrinking, turning pages, output, thumbnail display, hyperlink, And customizable toolbar.
	PDF report browser (displayed in Adobe Reader)
	Raw HTML report browser (displayed in the browser)
HTTP Processor	PDF (processing compiled reports or RPX files)
	HTML (processing compiled reports or RPX files)
PDF output	Output report is PDF
HTML output	Output report is html
Silverlight browser controls	Easy report display in Silverlight applications
Bar Code
Bar Code style	Ansi39, ansi39x, code 2 of 5, code25intlv, code25mat, code39, code39x, code 128a, code 128b, code 128c, code 128 auto, code93, code93x, msi, PostNet, Codabar, EAN 8, EAN 13, upc a, UPC E0, UPC E1, rm4scc, uccean128, qrcode, code49, japanesepostal, limit 417, EAN 128 fnc1, rss14, rss14 truncated, rss14 stacked, rss14 stacked omnidirectional, RSS expanded, RSS expanded stacked, data matrix (new)
Chart type
Two-dimensional chart	Style = "padding: 5px" Area Chart, column chart, besell curve chart, XY besell curve chart, bubble chart, XY bubble chart, K line chart, ring chart, funnel chart, Gantt Chart, high and low chart, HLOC, horizontal chart, card chart, line chart, XY line chart, pie chart, XY coordinate chart, coordinate chart, pyramid chart, brick chart, scatter chart, stacked area chart, percentage stacked Area Chart, Stacked column chart, percentage Stacked column chart, new three-Value Line, dot matrix chart (new)
3D chart	Area Chart, bar chart, Bessert graph, XY Bessert graph, layered column chart, ring chart, funnel chart, Gantt Chart, horizontal chart, card chart, line chart, XY line chart, pyramid chart, brick chart, stacked Area Chart, percentage stacked Area Chart, stacked bar chart, percentage Stacked column chart, new three-Value Line

• * 1-The Standard Edition only supports embedding fonts.
• * 2-The Standard Edition supports multiple languages, but only the Professional Edition supports the application of multiple languages in the same control.