List & Label Reporting Blog
Building a full reporting system for WinForms & WPF with List & Label
ByDesktop business applications eventually hit the same reporting problem: users want new reports, PDF exports, Excel output, print previews, and layout changes without waiting for another release. For development teams, that usually means a choice between piling up custom export code or building a reporting framework from scratch. List & Label offers a more practical option: embed reporting directly into your WinForms or WPF application while keeping control of your data, permissions, and user experience. This guide shows how to integrate it in a way that is practical, scalable, maintainable, and built for real-world line-of-business software.
Four New Treats for the Excel Export
To further improve our export formats, was one of the main areas we focused on with List & Label 28. Specifically, we added a number of powerful new features to the Excel export. Without any further ado, here’s what’s new.
New Service Pack 27.004 for List & Label and the Report Server
ByIn this summary you will find the most important new features and improvements in Service Pack 27.004. A detailed list of all changes can be found in the ServicePack.pdf in your installation as well as in the Service Pack download section.
Deploy Report Server on an Azure Container Instance and using it from an Azure Function
As we keep getting requests to support calling List & Label from an Azure Function, and – due to several restrictions like e.g. GDI sandboxing – List & Label can’t be used directly in this context, I thought it might be interesting to explore another way to the cloud, this time using the Report Server. Using its REST-API, you can even create reports from an Azure Function. But let’s walk through the process step by step.
Open Sourcing our Logging Tool Debwin
New Service Pack 27.003 for List & Label and the Report Server
In this summary you will find the most important new features and improvements in Service Pack 27.003. The individual entries were taken directly from the English Readme. A detailed list of all changes can be found in the ServicePack.pdf in your installation as well as in the Service Pack download section.
Miscellaneous Treats in List & Label 27
As with every version, there are way too many new features in version 27 to cover them all in separate blog posts. So here’s a quick summary of some of the rather hidden gems that still deserve some attention.
New Features for the Excel Export
After paying some attention to the PDF export in version 26, we decided to give some love to the Excel export in version 27, by adding three often requested features.
How to Create, Print and Export Barcodes in .NET/C#
ByWith List & Label, our reporting component for software development, you can use barcodes in numerous formats in .NET/C#. The portfolio of barcodes is constantly expanding.
New Features for the Web Report Designer in List & Label 27.002
ByThe Web Report Designer is an essential tool for using List & Label within web applications. We’re striving for constant improvements and enhancements – the plan is to add new features with each service pack we publish, until we’ll reach feature parity with the well-established Desktop Designer. Here’s a first glance what we were working on since the release.
New Service Pack 27.002 for List & Label and the Report Server
The new service pack for List & Label 27 brings many enhancements and improvements especially for the new Web Report Designer as well as for Delphi and .NET developers. In addition, the new drag & drop interface for charts now also supports the selection of an aggregate function. The report template preview in the Report Server uses the new Web Report Viewer, styled according to the applied Report Server customization. Read our blog post for more highlights. The individual entries have been taken directly from the English readme.
