A new outstanding player on .NET reporting tools playground.

9Rays.Net, the provider of award winning tools and components for .NET developers worldwide, announces the release of Report Sharp-Shooter 1.9, a striking reporting solution expressly designed for .NET Framework.

Many developers who have to face the need to add reporting to their applications treat this process as a boring, annoying, irritating and tiresome one. This is not always simplified by using third party reporting components for their high cost and low flexibility. 9Rays.Net aimed its activity at eliminating the negative points of engaging third party products for application development. This resulted in creating a powerful royalty free reporting tool, combining rich functionality, flexibility, ease of use and acceptable licensing costs. Report Sharp-Shooter meets the strictest requirements of .NET developers and other IT professionals for quick data access, easy embedding into enterprise applications, and managing the information formatting and its delivery over the web. The impressive set of comprehensive features allowing creating reports of any complexity and appearance without extra efforts is constantly being extended in order to make Report Sharp-Shooter the most flexible and functionally rich. The concept of Report Sharp-Shooter presumes it as a universal solution now supporting 16 interface localizations and capable of efficient functioning with the most widespread .NET IDEs such as Microsoft Visual Studio, Borland C# Builder and Delphi .NET as well as without an IDE at all. Moreover, now Report Sharp-Shooter 1.9 is amplified with utilization examples for VB.NET and Delphi.NET users. Presently it contains over 90 examples written in C#, VB.NET and Delphi.NET. The Class Reference has also been sufficiently complemented. Omitting the whole list of new Report Sharp-Shooter’s advantages, we shall only mention some basic ones simply to create a notion. Report Sharp-Shooter allows .NET developers to be extremely productive in creating effective and powerful reporting solutions for both Windows and Web applications. It also provides the ability to create unlimited master-detail levels in a single report without having to use any subreports. A master detail report can be created using just a single report and a datasource with native ADO.NET data relations. Report Sharp-Shooter is shipped with an end-user designer which allows developers to: • Create your own elements, export filters and data sources due to the open plug-in architecture of the product. • Create objects such as watermarks on a page background using page overlays. • Use rich visual controls set, including texts, shapes, pictures, bar codes and zip codes. Any WinForms control can also be used as a report element. • Use different style sheets to optimize reports for preview, print, export into 13 popular formats etc. • Use third party business objects (not ADO.NET) in design time. You simply need to drag and drop them on the report. • Use multiple data sources in a single report. • Create reports with the exact positioning without bands utilization. Report Sharp-Shooter 1.9 also allows simple creation of a custom viewer/designer. With Report Sharp-Shooter 1.9 a developer is capable to migrate from Crystal Reports to Report Sharp-Shooter due to an automatic converter included in the package. Another important thing is that a developer can obtain the entire source code for Report Sharp-Shooter and can rest assured that his/her application's destiny is under full control. “This solution is definitely to occupy a good marketplace niche among the world’s leading report engines due to the well measured harmony between its smart functioning and affordable price,” said Eugene Akinshin, Ph. D., director of 9Rays.Net development department.

Report Sharp-Shooter 1.9 is presently available to .NET developers. More information, including pricing, can be found at http://www.9rays.net.

Founded in 2001, 9Rays.Net has gained wide experience on the tools and components market, developing high-quality products for the following platforms: Microsoft .NET (Windows.Forms and ASP.Net), Borland Delphi, C++ Builder, and ActiveX. The company's primary product focus is on development of .Net tools and components compatible with Visual Studio .Net, C# Builder, Delphi.Net and other IDEs for .Net Framework.