.NET Reporting Engine

It’s easy to get started with Windward Reports, in many cases it is just 3 lines of code. Here’s how:

• Create an instance of a report object, passing it the report template (a Word, Excel or PowerPoint document) as a stream.
• Call the object once for each datasource. You can mix XML, SQL, and your own custom datasources. XML datasources are passed as a stream. SQL is passed as a set of connection parameters or a Connection object.
• Call the object to format the final report and return a stream that is the final report. This final report can be in PDF, DOCX, XLSX, RTF, HTML, WordML, SpreadsheetML, XLS, orTXT.

Your program calls the Windward DLL which creates the report and returns it. You can call the .NET library from any Windows language including C++ and including from COM. (Click here and here for details on calling from C++.)

Design in Word, Excel
or PowerPoint

Design your reports in Word, Excel or PowerPoint, using AutoTag, our Microsoft Office AddIn, to help you. Click here for more details.

.NET Specific

.NET specific features:

• The XML/XPath datasource uses the .NET XPathNavigator.
• The SQL datasource uses ADO.NET including support for OdbcConnector & OleDbConnector

Supplemental Documentation

Help center for .NET engine.

Requirements:

• .NET 2.0
• J# 2.0 (an optional part of .NET 2.0 from Microsoft)

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