ActiveReports provides a number of ways to view your report output. You have an option of previewing the report as you create it in a Visual Studio project at design time.
Previewing Reports at Design Time
ActiveReports makes it easy for you to preview your report while you are still creating it. Click the Preview tab at the bottom of the designer and see the output as it appears in a viewer. See Designer Tabs for further information.
With the in-built Viewers for Windows Forms, Web and Silverlight, you can view your report in any of these platforms as well in a separate viewer control. In ActiveReports, Windows Forms Viewer and WPF Viewer also supports previewing of reports that are hosted on ActiveReports Server.
The following topics introduce all the available report viewing options.
In this section
- Windows Forms
- This section explains how to view a report in the Windows Forms Viewer and demonstrates the Viewer's features, touch gestures and shortcut keys.
- ASP.NET
- This section introduces the Web Viewer where you can view your report output in various types of viewers and provides key features of each viewer type.
- HTML5
- Learn about the features available with the HTML5 Viewer.
- ReportService Settings
- This section describes ReportService settings used in Web Viewers.
- Silverlight
- This section describes how to view a report in the Silverlight viewer and introduces its toolbar and features.
- WPF
- This section describes the WPF Viewer toolbar, its additional features and how to view a report in the WPF viewer.
- ActiveReports Server
- This section describes how to view a report that is hosted on ActiveReports Server.
- Medium Trust Support
- Learn about the features and limitations available in Medium Trust Support environment.
- Viewing Reports from Different Domains using CORS
- Learn about accessing the reports from different domains using Cross-Origin Resource Sharing technology.