Closely Integrate the Designer Into Your Application
Writing your own customized report designer allows you to integrate the designer tightly into your application, rather than running a separate application. You can customize the data sources available to the end-user, or the types of fields that can be added to the report. For example, you may want to use custom data source objects defined by your application.

Supply Custom Stock Report Definitions to End-users
Writing your own customized report designer allows you to provide a menu of stock report definitions that make sense in the scope of your application. It allows end-users to customize some aspects of each stock report. Similar to the printing options in Microsoft Outlook.

Royalty-free Run-time Distribution
Developers can now enjoy royalty-free run-time distribution of the C1ReportDesigner application for flexible application deployment to an unlimited number of clients. Developers can easily create, customize, and deploy powerful and integrated reporting solutions including end-user report designers, and distribute them without royalty-fee restrictions.

Full Source Code for the C1ReportDesigner Application
The designer edition ships with full source code for the C1ReportDesigner application included in ComponentOne Reports™ for .NET Designer Edition. Full source code allows developers to customize the designer application or even integrate it within their own applications.

Easy-to-use C1ReportDesigner Component
The C1ReportDesigner component displays reports in design mode, and allows users to drag, copy, and resize report fields and sections. The component also provides an unlimited undo/redo stack and a selection mechanism designed for use with the PropertyGrid control that ships with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.

Access to ComponentOne Reports™ Powerful Object Model
ComponentOne Reports for WinForms adds powerful, flexible database reporting to your applications. Now you can quickly and easily create Microsoft Access-style database reports for your Visual Studio .NET applications. ComponentOne Reports for WinForms includes the C1Report component, which generates Access-style database reports, and its companion C1ReportDesigner application. C1ReportDesigner is a stand-alone application that enables you to create, edit, load, and save report definition files that can be read directly by the C1Report component.

Document Generator and Preview Capabilities
Add robust previewing, formatting, printing, and exporting to your applications with C1PrintDocument (powerful document generator) and C1PrintPreview (full-featured print preview component