ActiveReports Report Control official Chinese Introductory tutorial (1)-Installation, activation, and product resources

Original: ActiveReports Report control official Chinese Introductory tutorial (1)-Installation, activation, and product resources

This series of articles is primarily intended for users of the first contact with ActiveReports products, and can help you easily master the basic use of ActiveReports controls within three days, including installation, activation, creating reports, binding data sources, and publishing content. In this article, we start with the installation of the product to take you on a relaxing activereports experience.

Series of articles list:

ActiveReports Report Control official Chinese Introductory Tutorial (2)-Create, data source, browse, and publish

ActiveReports Report Control official Chinese Introductory Tutorial (3)-How to select page reports and regional reports

The contents of this article include:

• To install the ActiveReports report control
• Product Help Resources
• ActiveReports Authorization management: Online activation, online deactivation, offline activation and offline deactivation

before we start the text, we'll go through the schema design of the ActiveReports report control. ActiveReports is a global application of a very wide range of report controls to provide. NET reports all the report design features required are ahead of the same report controls, including strong support for interactive reports, rich data visualization, seamless integration with Visual Studio, and Html5/winforms/asp.net/asp.net Mvc/sil Multi-platform support for VERLIGHT/WPF and Windows Azure. Let's take a look at its overall situation

First, install the ActiveReports

The installation procedure is very simple, you can refer to the following steps to install the ActiveReports product on your machine.

Note: Your machine Setup program may require you to log on as an administrator. If this is the case and you do not have administrator privileges, please consult your system administrator.

1.ActiveReports product installation directory, double-click the Setup.exe file or right-clicking the file and selecting Install.

2. Click Next in the ActiveReports Welcome window to proceed with the installation.

3. In the End User License Agreement interface, read the terms in the License Agreement, select the Accept this License Terms check box, and then click Next to proceed with the installation.

4. In the Installation Options screen, select whether to install the ActiveReports sample project together, and then click Next to proceed with the installation.

Note: These sample projects will help you learn and use the product, the randomly installed product sample is comprehensive, almost covers all of the features of AR products, it is recommended that you run learning.

5. In the optional licensing interface, select your desired from three options (evaluation License, activate now, activate later), and click Install.

6. After the installation is complete, a prompt to install the completed interface appears. Click Finish to close the window and complete the installation process.

Second, product Help resources

1.ActiveReports Resource Center:http://www.gcpowertools.com.cn/products/activereports_resources.htm

2.ActiveReports Online Example:http://www.gcpowertools.com.cn/products/activereports_demo.htm

3.ActiveReports Online Document:http://www.gcpowertools.com.cn/docs/ActiveReports/AR8Guide/

4. Install the Help document randomly: The ActiveReports Help documentation is detailed, including basic and advanced reporting methods, as well as a detailed API presentation, which is an essential reference for your use of the product. If the help document is not properly integrated into Visual Studio, please refer to the link article for installation.

5. When you install activereports using all of the default settings, the files are installed in the following folder:

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ActiveReports (folder)

Contains shortcuts for standalone applications, help files, and sample project folders.

License Manager

A shortcut to the License Manager application.

C:\Users\ User name \documents\componentone Samples\activereports 8

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Data (folder)

Contains the sample data file.

HTML5 Viewer (folder)

Contains HTML5 related examples.

Page Reports (folder)

Contains a page report example.

Section Reports (folder)

Contains an example of a regional report.

Professional (folder)

Contains examples of professional features.

C:\Program files\componentone\activereports 8 (C:\Program Files (x86) \componentone\activereports 8 on a 64-bit Windows op Erating system)

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Deployment (folder)

Includes flash viewer files, Flash Viewer topics, Silverlight localized resources, and re-distributed template files.

Help (folder)

Integrated Help files, compressed files, Help integration files, registry objects, Microsoft Help Viewer support files, and command files.

Icons (folder)

which contains the associated icon image file.

Localization (folder)

Includes localized ActiveReports resources and DOS batch files.

Grapecity.ActiveReports.config

XML configuration file.

Iii. activating the ActiveReports control

The ActiveReports report control provides two modes of activation: Online activation \ Deactivation and offline activation \ Deactivation. where offline activation \ Deactivation is designed to meet users who cannot connect to the network in some working environments. The License can be transferred to another computer by using the anti-activation. This section details the authorization management methods in the development computer.

Please be sure to deactivate the ActiveReports product before you need to reproduce the system, otherwise your serial number will be locked out of use.

Online activation

1. Open the License management tool from the Start menu

2. Locate the ActiveReports 8 record, click the Action column Active link

3. Click the Next button in the confirmation screen:

4. Enter registration related information and serial number, click Next button to activate:

5. The activation successful interface is as follows:

For online deactivation, offline activation, and offline deactivation please refer to: Learn more.

If you have previously used a trial version of the product, then the previously developed project needs to replace the trial version of Licnese for the official version, please refer to the following: Learn more.

Well, that's what you need to know about the first use of the ActiveReports control, and in the next article we'll show you how to create a report, bind a data source, browse a report, publish a report.

If you have any questions about using the product, you can log in to the official product technology community and experienced technical engineers and activereports developers to communicate: Learn more.

Learn more about the ActiveReports product features:

Http://www.gcpowertools.com.cn/products/activereports_overview.htm

Download product Experience Product Features:

Http://www.gcpowertools.com.cn/products/download.aspx?pid=16

ActiveReports Report Control official Chinese Introductory tutorial (1)-Installation, activation, and product resources