Ultimate Visual Studio report designer for report developers & end users!

1. Supported data sources:
   IEnumerable, IList, IListSource, ICustomTypeDescriptor and ITypedList; ADO.NET objects; Business objects; Integrated SQL and XML data sources;
2. Multiple datasources in a single report;
3. Bound and unbound reports.

Report Design

1. Convenient and User Friendly Report Designer
   Convenient and User Friendly Report Designer Ribbon toolbar of the report designer groups common properties in the way that they can be easily found by the developers. Just switch the tabs, select necessary property and set it with a single mouse click. A convenient Properties toolbar provides immediate access to the report item properties and allows developers to write expressions and scripts for the selected report item;
2. High-performance Report Wizards for Fast Creation of Reports
   It’s so easy to create a report in SharpShooter Reports as the product offers report wizards. All you need is to select available data source, data you want to include in the report, decide whether you want to group your data, set basic report properties like report title, measure unit, script language, apply some styling and click ok. Pivot table wizard is added to SharpShooter Reports to make creation of cross tab reports extremely effortless. It helps you to visually arrange data fields, set layout items, apply some styling and click ok.
3. Ability to organize the consistent layout of the reports into reusable templates
   The Master Report functionality allows a user to assign a report template containing all recurring elements once and then apply it to further reports by a single mouse click. Any modifications in the master report will immediately appear in all reports that use it.
4. Quick Access to the Most Important Report Elements
   SharpShooter Reports designer provides at-a-click access to the following tools that help developers better manage reports: report item properties, available data sources and tree view report structure. Drag and drop data source fields for intuitive and fast report creation, quickly find report elements and edit styles and parameters.

Rich Data Visualizations

1. Built-in Charts and Gauges
   A built-in charting component allows the visual presentation of data contained in the report. Integration with Microsoft Charts offers even more power and convenience in data visualization. SharpShooter Reports offers a built-in gauge control, so you can view your data as dials, sliders, switches, odometers, meters, etc. to make information much more comprehensive.
   
2. Rich Set of Built-in Visual Elements
   Rich set of visual controls, including texts, shapes, pictures, bar codes and zip codes is provided in the designer. You can also use any WinForms control as a report element.
3. Extended Text Formatting in Rich Text and Advanced Text controls
   A number of text formatting abilities in Rich Text and Advanced Text (providing the ability to format data by visual means like in a common word processor) allows developers to produce customizable and good looking reports. Advanced text has access to all report items, data source fields and parameters, so, you can easily retrieve content directly from a data source or other report item.
4. Report Styles
   SharpShooter Reports offers rich capabilities in report styling. There is a number of pre-set report styles that can used throughout the reports. Developers can easily create custom styles – set text formatting, align, color, font size, background, etc. – and then just refer to the newly created style by its name when necessary.
5. Bar Codes and Zip Codes
   SharpShooter Reports includes a wide set of bar codes (25+), and provides support for 2D bar code PDF 417.

End User Capabilities

1. Bookmarks
   Bookmarks will help you to provide a table of contents of your report or direct users to the most valuable information in a report.
   
2. Hyperlinks
   Hyperlinks can be added to any report item; they also allow end-users to access external Web pages.
3. Report Export Options
   Generated reports can be easily saved to the common file formats such as PDF, RTF, HTML, EMF, BMP, JPG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, Excel, Excel(XML), CSV and Text. You can also use custom export filters.
4. Printing Reports
   Built in printing allows end user to easily print reports and set common print options.
5. Search
   Users are able to search for the necessary information throughout the report.

General

1. Royalty-Free Runtime
   SharpShooter Reports is runtime royalty-free. This means that developers can distribute SharpShooter Reports dll’s within their application to the end-users without any additional fees.
   
2. Source Code Availability
   SharpShooter Reports is written in C# and includes only managed code that can be obtained by the customers.
3. Localization
   You can easily translate SharpShooter Reports interface into your native language and add it to SharpShooter Reports as an XML file.
4. Compatibility
   Compatible with .NET Framework 2.0/3.0/4.0/4.5 and with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010/2012/2013.