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New opportunities Improved work with the Table object Working with the report designer has become easier and more convenient. There are new capabilities for working with the "Table" object. 1. Quickly add columns and rows. If you point to a row boundary to the left of the table or a column boundary at the top, a conditional display will appear showing where a new row or column will be added. There is also a button that, when clicked, will add a new row or column to the table. The table must be active (selected). Otherwise, new controls will not appear. 2. Change the height of rows and width of columns. Now, you can change the column width or row height accordingly by dragging the column or row border using the mouse. 3. Drop-down menu "Insert." When you right-click a cell in the context menu, you will see a drop-down list that allows you to insert a new column or row next to the cell.   4. Hotkeys. Copy cell text and paste text into a cell using the hotkeys Ct

  We are pleased to present you with the long-awaited update, in which we have given special attention to user experience and the software code quality. In this release, we tried to listen to the requests of our users. Starting from version 2023.3, we added the following: a new object—RFID tag, the toolbar in the context menu, and much more.  New features New RFIDLabel object The new version includes a new object—an RFID tag. It enables the identification of goods and closely resembles a barcode, but unlike the barcode, it uses radio signals. This allows for scanning a large number of items in short time intervals. The tag contains 4 data banks: a reserved bank for storing access and destruction passwords, an electronic product code bank, a tag identifier bank, and a user data bank. In the FastReport .NET product lineup, the RFID tag is represented as a report object. The tag can be customized using a user-friendly editor, accessed by double-clicking. RFID tags can be created by some Z

  New opportunities .NET 7 support We have added .NET 7 . support for FastReport.Core and FastReport.CoreWin. This platform improves application performance and adds many new features to your projects. Report validator improvements Increased work speed Now the report validator runs in a single thread. The speed of its work is significantly optimized. You can notice the changes in processing reports with a large number of errors. While the validator is checking the report, the check window shows a respective message. In this case, you can edit the report. A table with errors will appear upon completion of the validator. Validator table setup For convenience, we have added a new column with error numbers. Its display can be enabled or disabled via the table context menu. In the same way, you can customize the display of the error type column. JasperReports Template Converter We have added the option to convert report templates from JasperReports to FastReport .NET templates. JasperReport