The hard part isn’t generating reports. It’s building a reporting backend that scales cleanly. This post shows how to use List & Label Cross Platform to build a modern .NET architecture with stateless rendering, centralized template management, ASP.NET Core, Docker, and observability.
Most .NET teams don’t set out to build a reporting subsystem that needs rescuing. But “just generate a few PDFs” can quietly become a tangle of layout logic, export workarounds, and growing technical debt—until someone says, “We have to replace this.” Here’s how to spot that pattern early, and how to avoid backing your application into a reporting rewrite later.
Why a new rendering engine? PDF documents have long since ceased to be used “only” as a pure export format in List & Label. In … Read more
Service Pack 30.004 for List & Label and the Report Server is now available. This update focuses on performance improvements for exports, usability enhancements in the Web Report Designer, and several security updates for third-party libraries.
Service Pack 31.001 for List & Label introduces official support for ZUGFeRD 2.4 PDF exports, adds nested tables and enhanced contrast optimization to cross-platform text rendering, improves performance and stability across designers and exports, and delivers multiple security updates for Web Components and third-party libraries.
The latest service pack 30.003 for List & Label adds Windows 11 25H2 support, introduces a new datastructure tree component in the Web Report Designer, improves performance for large projects, and increases the maximum number of print passes to 1000.
From the idyllic Lake Constance to the capital on the Spree: this year, we had our own booth at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress – and not only did we have a good mood in our luggage, but also our “next big thing”: List & Label Cross Platform.
The latest service pack 30.002 for List & Label brings form controls to the Web Report Designer and Web Report Viewer, adds RAD Studio 12.3 support, and expands flexibility for OData sources in the Report Server.
A very popular wish from our Idea Place is finally fulfilled in version 30 – SVG files are optionally output as vectors.
Maybe you’ve already seen it on our social networks, our website, or in our livestream: at combit, we’re currently working on a new, forward-looking offshoot of List & Label—a cross-platform reporting solution that will primarily run on Linux. Internally, we call this project List & Label Cross Platform (LL-CP). It is aimed primarily at developers looking for a stable, high-performance, and modern reporting solution.
Here we post about new features in our reporting tool List & Label and about general development topics.
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