Telerik Reporting Q1 2008 Release Notes (v2.5.8.414)

New Features and Enhancements

• New Report Designer
• Report Rendering Performance Optimizations up to 30%
• Export to RTF
• Report Parameters UI
• Label Report Wizard
• Report Viewer Localization
• Improved Documentation
• Vertical Text
• Support for Safari 2.0+ web browser on Mac OS X
• Added Chart series types: StackedLine and StackedSpline
• Automatic text-wrapping functionality added to the Chart report item

Fixes

Report Model

• Chart not serialized correctly during binary serialization of the report.

Data Binding

• MainTable.Fill() does not respect ITypedList data source;
• An exception is thrown if an empty image (zero byte length) is assigned to a PictureBox;
• Cannot bind to simple array (example - int[]);
• Bind to a business object that is not enumerable is not allowed.

Excel Rendering

• When report items are docked, sometimes Excel regards them as overlapping and produces a distorted table;
• Excel Rendering Extension does not respect the Visible property of Report Sections;
• Report items with location Y < 0 raise exception in Excel export;
• Report sections are not automatically resized horizontally respecting the right-most item;
• User-modified Culture of a Report Item is not respected by the Excel Rendering Extension;
• Attempt to get a range which intersects with an already merged range;
• DateTime-bound TextBoxes without string format (Format property) appear as numbers instead of dates in Excel;
• Thousands separator appears only once for numbers with more than 6 integer digits;
• Incorrect thousands separator for numbers formatted with a Culture that has the dot as a thousands separator (German, for example);
• Number or currency precision explicitly set to zero (N0 or C0) is not respected.

HTML Rendering

• Shapes transparency in IE6;
• The leading space characters are trimmed in HTML rendering;
• Html renderer does not replace \r\n with <br> for docked items;
• HTML rendering does not process line breaks of docked text box items.

Image Rendering

• Exporting to TIFF CCITT4 with 300x300 dpi takes huge amount of time to finish.

Pdf Rendering

• Right-aligned text is misplaced or clipped when rendered to PDF;
• When exporting to PDF, sometimes images become much larger than the original ones;
• Identical images are not cached and reused when exporting to PDF resulting in a larger file size than needed;
• Leading spaces in multiline text are trimmed by the PDF rendering.

Web Viewer

• Web Viewer does not operate correctly under Safari;
• Exceptions thrown during report processing not displayed in the corresponding reporting item;
• Unable to load the report in case of url translation(url rewriting, etc);
• The void src of the report iframe is not correct for a SSL connection;
• Calling RefreshReport() from a form's constructor may cause the viewer to "Generating Report..." endlessly;
• Slow rendering of html pages because of page rendering-on-demand approach.

Chart Report Item

• New skins - sunset, Marble, Wood, Metal, Hay;
• Fixed marked zones label tooltip;
• Fixed bar series position issue;
• Fixed an issue with disappearing label for bars with small values;
• Fixed an issue with chart series items labels positioning;
• Fixed an issue with EMF format in design time;
• Pie chart item labels can now be placed inside the chart;
• Extended Y axis is now extended even if the axis max value does not match the series' max value;
• Fixed an issue with XmlDataSource;
• Fixed an issue with Line chart series shadow;
• Fixed an issue with axis labels serialization;
• User-defined custom figures are now editable; 
• User-defined custom figures are now available for selection in Series.Appearance.PointMark.Figure dropdown.