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Simple grouping in Reports SharpShooter

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  Having started to describe the bevy of grouping and sorting strategies here and here, we somehow missed the very basic (yet powerful) grouping options natively available in Reports SharpShooter.   So let me make up for this remarkable omission, and tell you how to group items in a report via GroupBand, a SharpShooter’s grouping container. Step 1 of [...] To read the article please visit: Perpetuum Software Blog

Perpetuum Software Wins Top 100 ComponentSource Bestselling Publisher Award for 2011-2012!

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We are very proud to share with you that our company became Top 100 ComponentSource Bestselling Publisher for 2011-2012, and we are even more proud to say that it is for 4th year in row!   ComponentSource, the largest marketplace for software components and developer tools, started their business in 1995 and since 2006 they held their [...] To read the article please visit: Perpetuum Software Blog

Topological Sort in Report SharpShooter

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  Normally sorting is simple: you just need to tell which one of the two elements is larger. However, it’s not always the case – sometimes the items don’t have linear structure, and pairwise comparison is not possible. So let me piggyback on the hot topic of graph search and show you a useful and beautiful [...] To read the article please visit: Perpetuum Software Blog

On strings similarity, graphs, and SharpShooter.

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  You know what, search engines frown upon the duplicate and similar content.   Or, rather, scratch that. What I wanted to say is that certain problems become utterly easy when you know which algorithms to apply. And, since I was lucky to touch some graph search stuff recently, I would like to share a few insights with [...] To read the article please visit: Perpetuum Software Blog

SharpShooter Reports Video Tutorial: Part 5. Using Scripts and Styles.

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This is the last video tutorial of the series devoted to SharpShooter Reports features. The previous ones are SharpShooter Reports Video Tutorial: Part 1. Introduction. SharpShooter Reports Video Tutorial: Part 2. Report Types SharpShooter Reports Video Tutorial: Part 3. Using Charts SharpShooter Reports Video Tutorial: Part 4. Using Widgets   The final part shows the true power of scripts in reports. [...] To read the article please visit: Perpetuum Software Blog

What’s new in SharpShooter Collection 6.2

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We are happy to announce a new version 6.2 of SharpShooter Collection, a set of .NET components for reporting and data visualization.   I’ll say several words about the changes in the new version. Registration vs Activation First of all, let us tell you about some organizational changes. We updated the registration procedure for the component. Now, you don’t [...] To read the article please visit: Perpetuum Software Blog

SharpShooter Reports Video Tutorial: Part 4. Using Widgets.

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This is the fourth video tutorial of the series devoted to SharpShooter Reports features. You can the previous ones here, here and here.   This part tells us about the use of widgets in reports. It also shows how to create a non-standard reports that uses widgets – NASA Missions timeline example (for more details on the [...] To read the article please visit: Perpetuum Software Blog

Using Dapper with SharpShooter

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  Dapper is a “micro ORM” created for stackoverflow.com and they heavily use it in places where performance matters. It’s not a full blown mapper and doesn’t support relationsips and wouldn’t manage your connection life cycle etc – but it can map SQL queries to business objects.   And you know what, it does mapping better than anyone [...] To read the article please visit: Perpetuum Software Blog

Interactive Restaurant Manager’s Console using SharpShooter Diagrams

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Let’s assume that we do orders automatization in a small restaurant. It is an advanced high-tech restaurant where each table is supplied with a touch-based tablet using which a customer can make an order.   We won’t pay too much attention to the application for making orders. Lets just assume that a user press a button from [...] To read the article please visit: Perpetuum Software Blog

Using Entity Framework in SharpShooter Reports

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Before you start, please, download and install the latest Entity Framework version. Let’s use an existing AdventureWorks Sample database, which is available here http://msftdbprodsamples.codeplex.com/ Generate DataModel from the existing AdventureWorks database. Put reportManager component. Let it be reportManager1. AdventureWorksEntities class was automatically generated and we need to pass these entities as the datasource to the report. In order to add [...] To read the article please visit: Perpetuum Software Blog