New reporting tool for Silverlight

BARNAUL, RUSSIA: Perpetuum Software LLC has announced the release of Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight. Report Sharp-Shooter is a flexible component designed to create reporting systems of any complexity.

Perpetuum Software's  product includes advantages of this new technology keeping all well-established methods of work. There was no change in the approach of Web applications creation in Report Sharp-Shooter, but these Web applications are now as functional as Windows Forms, and sometimes even more powerful. Thus, the developer won't have to examine the product once again or re-design his existing projects.

Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight is intended to create Web reports of any complexity based on unlimited number of .Net data sources. The product offers a set of skins, templates and styles. If a user wants to create his own unique interface, no problem. It is possible to design custom style or skin and add it to the report. You can change not only report appearance, but the whole page by setting the standard or custom background style. This can be image, video or music as well. New SmartReportView technology is dramatically user-friendly. It adds smooth animation to all manipulations with the report. This is very convenient since the needed information doesn't go out of the user's focus. Vector format of report pages makes it possible to zoom in and out reports without loss of quality.

Besides that, users will be able to:

• Preview reports in various preview modes
• Quickly find necessary information in the report
• Easily navigate the report
• Pan and scroll reports
• Fast receive any report

The use of all Silverlight advantages in Report Sharp-Shooter considerably extends developer abilities both in creation of Web reports and in addressing user requirements. Thin client allows users to reduce traffic, since the whole report is stored on server and only the needed pages are loaded. Thus, the use of Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight saves users from unnecessary problems, and considerably facilitates the process of administration and control of user rights.