KIRKLAND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GrapeCity, the world’s largest component vendor, today announced an important upgrade to ActiveReports 6, its award-winning .NET reporting tool for Microsoft Visual Studio, along with an extension of upgrade deadlines.

The company also announced Site License purchase options for all products in the ActiveReports Reporting and Business Intelligence Suite for .NET and for FarPoint Spread, the world’s best-selling Microsoft Excel compatible spreadsheet components for .NET.

The latest upgrade to ActiveReports includes these major enhancements:

• ASP.NET Medium Trust Support: ActiveReports users can now use this powerful reporting tool to develop and deploy reports in a hosted, medium trust ASP.NET environment in which multiple applications are run securely on shared servers.
• Advanced PDF Character Support: The ActiveReports Professional Edition’s PDF reporting feature now allows the export of End-User Defined Characters (EUDC) in East Asian languages. For example, old Chinese characters that are used for names in Japanese may require custom characters or a third-party font package. .NET developers can now configure the export feature to either render these characters or use a default font.
• Flash Report Viewer Customization: The latest update to the ActiveReports Flash report viewer allows the look and feel of the Flash report viewer to be customized using client-side JavaScript. Developers can now not only load and print documents, but also change their appearance, add useful information, configure printing options, and more.

Commenting on the ActiveReports 6 upgrade, Rick Williamson, GrapeCity’s General Manager of Developer Tools, said, “ActiveReports .NET reporting tools are a worldwide favorite of .NET developers who use Microsoft Visual Studio to build enterprise applications. At GrapeCity, we’re committed to once again transforming the reporting and business intelligence tools category, and the ActiveReports group of technologies is a key part of that strategy.”

The company also released a new Video titled “Rapidly Deliver Enterprise Business Intelligence Applications using Microsoft Visual Studio and Award-winning ActiveReports and FarPoint Spread from GrapeCity.” Watch at http://www.farpointspread.com/bi.

About GrapeCity

Founded in 1980, GrapeCity is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, a premier Visual Studio Industry Partner program partner, an international award-winning software firm, and the world’s largest provider of developer components. The company has more than 850 employees and tens of thousands of customers worldwide. For over 25 years, GrapeCity has provided enterprises around the world with state-of-the-art developer tools, software services, and solutions. For more information, visit http://www.datadynamics.com and http://us.grapecity.com.