What is DevExpress Reporting (XtraReports)?
DevExpress Reporting (XtraReports) is a feature-rich reporting platform for .NET developers. It allows you to create visually appealing, richly formatted, and printable reports for WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET WebForms, ASP.NET MVC, and ASP.NET Core platforms.
Key features of XtraReports include:
- Intuitive visual designer for building report layouts with bands, labels, shapes, barcodes, and charts
- Binding to various data sources - SQL databases, Entity Framework, CSV, XML, business objects, etc.
- Export reports to PDF, HTML, RTF, Excel, images, and other formats
- Print reports directly or integrate with third-party printing modules
- Interactive report elements like bookmarks, hyperlinks, drill-down reports
- Visual Studio extensibility and report wizard for easy integration
- Royalty-free deployment and distribution
With XtraReports, developers can quickly build feature-rich, professional-looking reports. The flexible API provides a lot of customization options. And the variety of export formats allow integrating reports into any type of application, be it web, desktop or mobile.