Stimulsoft Reports is a report writer primarily designed to create reports of any complexity from scratch on desktop and web. Can be easily deployed on most platforms, such as ASP.NET, WinForms, .NET Core, JavaScript, WPF, Angular, Blazor, PHP, Java, etc. Embed the report designer in your application or create reports online, support Quickly share your reports from the cloud.
FastReport is a full-featured report control that can help developers quickly and efficiently add report support to .NET, VCL, COM, and ActiveX applications. Due to its unique programming principles, it has now become the best report control on the Delphi platform. , supports the output of report information in programming development to TXT, PDF and other file formats, and is an essential reporting tool for programming developers.
The import reported by StimulSoft is now available in version 2022.2.13. To use it, in FastReport .NET Designer, FastReport CoreWin and FastReport Mono go to the "File" menu and click on the "Open..." item. In the window that appears select the filter "StimulSoft files (*.mrt)". Uploaded files will be automatically converted to FastReport reports and opened in the designer.
Reports imported from this may vary. Most likely, you should finalize it by adding concatenation and the ability to change variables in the text object. Due to technical characteristics of the product, StimulSoft report codes cannot be converted to FastReport reports to work properly. Therefore, program code will be converted into comments.
Also, StimulSoft reports may contain implementation objects that are not supported by FastReport Designer. These objects will not be exported, or replaced by other objects, so that the generated report is as similar as possible to the report created in StimulSoft. It is important to note that cross bands are imported by moving their contents into the parent band. The location, size and type of objects with certain properties will match those in the StimulSoft report.
StimulSoft and FastReport report comparison table:
| Possibility |
FastReport |
StimulSoft |
| report item |
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| Text |
+ |
+ |
| Figure |
+ |
+ |
| Image |
+ |
+ |
| SVG |
+ |
+ |
| subreport |
+ |
+ |
| Service text |
+ |
+ |
| Diagram |
+ |
+ |
| Barcode |
+ |
+ |
| 2D barcode |
+ |
+ |
| Map |
+ |
+ |
| Postcode |
+ |
+ |
| Text in cells |
+ |
+ |
| Rich Text |
+ |
+ |
| Gradient |
+ |
+ |
| Cross-tab (Matrix) |
+ |
+ |
| AdvMatrix |
+ |
- |
| Table |
+ |
+ |
| Container |
+ |
- |
| Indicator |
+ |
+ |
| Checkbox |
+ |
+ |
| Sparkline |
+ |
+ |
| HTML |
+ |
+ |
| Digital signature |
+ |
+ |
| Clone |
- |
+ |
| Mathematical formulas |
- |
+ |
| Report function |
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| Dialogue Forms |
+ |
+ |
| Report Inheritance |
+ |
+ |
| Master-detail-subdetail |
+ |
+ |
| Drill-downs |
+ |
+ |
| Grouping |
+ |
+ |
| Sorting |
+ |
+ |
| Headers and footers |
+ |
+ |
| URLs аnd hrefs |
+ |
+ |
| HTML tags in text objects |
+ |
+ |
| Dimensionless Pages |
+ |
+ |
| Preview Component |
+ |
+ |
| Report designer in development environment |
+ |
+ |
| Report designer in the executable program |
+ |
+ |
| High DPI support |
+ |
+ |
| Visual SQL Query Builder |
+ |
- |
| Interface languages |
39 |
38 |
Reports imported from StimulSoft to FastReport
Raw reports built into StimulSoft trial version:
The result after some modifications:
You can notice one difference in these examples - there is no area enclosing the table footer in the imported report. This is explained by the different implementations of the DataFooterBand.
Let's look at another report that includes Code 39, Code 39 Extended, Code 93, Code 93 Extended, UPC-Sup2, UPC-Sup5 barcodes.
You can see the result of converting to FastReport Designer in the screenshot below:
This import feature will enable FastReport users to convert reports from StimulSoft very quickly and as accurately as possible. This will save time and effort in converting and building familiar reports in FastReport Designer.