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Monoreports is a cross-platform report designer and reporting engine for .net/mono
It's similar to the CrystalReport (TM) and other tools like that.

• simple layouting - if control in section is growable and will grow due to assigned data, engine will do layouting to make report look properly
• page breaking - Monoreports engine will break or keep together report sections whatever is needed
• generating and running reports from designer and code.

Simple code generated report example example:

	Report report = new Report;
	report.Details.Controls.Add(new Textblock(){ FieldName = "InvoiceNumber" });
	report.Datasource = myInvoicesCollection;
	report.ExportToPdf(path);

• pdf export
• reporting engine is not tightly coupled with gtk/cairo stuff, therefore it's reasonably easy to write new export backends (e.g. html, xls etc)

Monoreports is in pre 0.1 version state.

There is a six minutes monoreports demo on youtube

You can grab current binary verision in Monoreports downloads on github site

At the moment Monoreports lack of two features commonly used in this kind of tools.

• group section - group header section appears before details every time value of group expression is changed.
• subreports - report in report

Other things in roadmap are:

• improve designer to support multiselections, undo/redo
• imporove report engine quality by writing more unit tests
• make designer resolution independent, add milimeters and inches as units

I'm not a Novell employee and Monoreports is not a mono team (www.go-mono.org) project (however monoreports is using mono to run it on linux). I've named this project Monoreports simply because i didn't have better idea for name.