DevExpress Reporting for LightSwitch

DevExpress has added LightSwitch support to its award-winning reporting platform, the XtraReports Suite. With the suite, you can create a wide range of business reports for the LightSwitch platform, from a simple contact list to an advanced sales report.

Highlights

Rich design — The XtraReports Suite for LightSwitch ships with a rich design experience to simplify the report generation process and to help you create compelling and informational reports with ease.

Seamless integration — XtraReports interacts seamlessly with LightSwitch entities, leveraging your knowledge for maximum productivity. All standard tasks such as data binding, grouping, and sorting within LightSwitch are simple and repeatable processes. You also get instant access to more than 15 native XtraReport Controls, enabling you to incorporate advanced report elements such as bar codes and charts.

Features

Built-in designer — Much like the Visual Studio form design surface, the XtraReports Designer simplifies the way in which you create business reports. It ships with cross-band tables, boxes, and lines for straightforward data arrangement across multiple bands. Smart tags for the report and individual bands help provide quick access to frequently used commands. And with easy-to-understand layout customization and in-place editing/text formatting tools, you will be able to customize your report to meet the needs of your most demanding users.

Integrated report preview — Once a report is generated using XtraReports for LightSwitch, it can be rendered, printed, and exported to numerous file formats via our easy-to-use Report Preview window. Report export options include PDF, HTML, Excel, and RTF.

DevExpress Data Editors for LightSwitch

Whether you are building a data-entry application or displaying information from your database, DevExpress Data Editors for LightSwitch greatly simplify the way you deliver information to end users.

Highlights

Simplified data presentation — With an interface that’s intuitive and uncluttered, DevExpress Data Editors give you many ways to define and display your most critical data.

Consistency and control — Data formatting rules can be as strict as you need them to be, ensuring consistency throughout all your databases.

Features

Masked text edit — To maintain strict control over application data, you can use the DevExpress Mask Text Edit for LightSwitch to enforce data format rules. For instance, when entering phone numbers, you can require that users enter the area code in parentheses.

Accounting and percentage edit — The Accounting and Percentage Edit extensions for LightSwitch allow you to present and store information using currency and percentage values respectively.

Web image and Web link edit — The DevExpress Web Image extension allows you to display an image from a given URL, and the Web Link Edit allows you to launch and display the page referenced by the edit.