.Net Excel or OpenOffice report generator 1.3

.Net Excel or OpenOffice report generator 1.3 is exactly what you are looking for. So what is MonoReport? MonoReport is a handy report generator that allows creating spreadsheet reports, using the easiest possible way. There is no need for special intermediate report format to create a template. You just need a) get the report form; b) change the real values in it to the template markup (placeholders). The report template is ready.

MonoReport is a report generator developed on .NET platform (C#). There are two versions of MonoReport: for .Net Framework 2.0 and 3.5 (Mono framework will be supported soon). MonoReport redistributable run-time is royalty-free libraries. So MonoReport could be used in any environments that can use .NET Framework libraries.

Using MonoReport greatly reduces the work needed to get an ideal report if you need spreadsheet report ...or other type of report that could be made from spreadsheet report using spreadsheet editor (e.g. csv, html, pdf). If you need to get other format of the report (e.g. image) perhaps using MonoReport is not the best solution.

Currently MonoReport supports Microsoft Excel 2003, 2007. We are working on OpenOffice support and are going to add this feature to all MonoReport editions soon. All our clients will get the update for free. Please, let us know if you need MonoReport to support other spreadsheet editors.

How MonoReport could be used in the real application?

• Create spreadsheet in your favorite spreadsheet editor.
  
• Put template markup in the appropriate cells of the spreadsheet. Now you have the template done.
  
• In the code call MonoReport with the specific data and the template. That is all: you have the report.
  

Could you add "specific feature" to MonoReport?

Definitely yes, if this feature would be acknowledged as a highly-valuable for the product. We try to save MonoReport simplicity and restrict it from unmotivated features.

Major Features:

1. Brilliant, handy and convenient way to design report templates using spreadsheet editor (Excel or OpenOffice). 
2. No need for famous "pixel hunting" games while designing report template.
3. Genuine WYSIWYG generated reports
4. Genuine WYSIWYG generated reports. Exact places, exact spaces.
5. Free edition produces fully-functional reports that contain small link to our site on the top and are protected (cannot be modified).
6. Simple template notation
7. Simple template notation. MonoReport supports both brief and full notations that are easy to remember: level[0] or l0, table[15] or t15 etc.  
8. Native numbers spell out on 4 languages (English, Russian, Latvian, Ukrainian): "123" becomes "One hundred three".
9. You can distribute MonoReport with your applications to end-users for free.  
10. The report is a simple spreadsheet - you can change it as you wish.
11. When you need to take a look at the specific realization of MonoReport functionality (in C#) you can do this.  
12. Supports WinForms and ASP.NET applications, fully managed code.
13. Load balancing for web applications
14. Allows to achieve best performance under high load.

Requirements: .NET 2.0