The key features of FlexReport for UWP are as follows:

• Light-weight and Fast
  FlexReport is light-weight and fast in particular for smaller reports.
  
  
• Enhanced Rendering
  FlexReport uses modern rendering with DirectWrite/DirectX technology to draw and generate high performance report content. This makes text, shapes and borders rendering better and increases the accuracy along with the quality.
  
  
• Preview control with Modern UI
  FlexViewer control has report previewing capabilities and can load and view FlexReport. It allows you to navigate through the report pages, change the page settings before printing reports, print reports, and export report to multiple formats.
  
  
• Supported Data Providers
  FlexReport for UWP currently supports the following data sources:
  • SQLite
  • An object in an external DLL supporting IC1FlexReportExternalRecordset
  • An object that supports either IC1FlexReportRecordset or IList (needs to be assigned to DataSource.RecordSet in code)
    
    
• Exporting Capabilities
  FlexReport for UWP can be exported to PDF, HTML, DOCX, RTF, XLSX, TIFF, BMP, PNG, JPEG and GIF formats.
  

Changes in Public Properties and Methods

Certain properties and methods are changed in the UWP version of FlexReport to make its use easier:

• The type of C1FlexReport.BasePath and C1FlexReport.DefaultBasePath properties in the UWP version is StorageFolder.
• Method overloads C1FlexReport.Save(…), C1FlexReport.Load(…) were added that accept a StorageFile as the argument.

Limitations of FlexReport

• Loading a Report
  • FlexReport for UWP cannot directly load legacy C1Report report definition files (.xml). To use such report definitions, you need to first convert them to the FlexReport format (e.g. using the FlexReport designer app for WinForms), and then use the converted .flxr report definitions instead.
    
• Features not supported till now
  • Metafiles (if a report uses a metafile as an image, it will not be displayed).
  • Chart Field, RTFField and Legacy Field having Field.RTF=True.
  
  
• Data Providers not supported
  • As there is no ADO.NET in UWP, the following data providers are not supported in UWP:
    • OLEDB
    • ODBC
    • SQLServerCe3_5
    • SQLServerCe4_0
    • XMLFile data provider.
  
  
• Printing a Report
  • The C1FlexReport.Print(…) methods are not supported. Instead, C1DocumentSource.ShowPrintUIAsync() method is provided.