LINQ Reporting Engine for .NET

The LINQ Reporting Engine, which started in Aspose.Words, isn’t connected to old Microsoft Word features. It has its way of creating templates using straightforward text tags. If working with Microsoft Word fields feels too complicated for you or your users, using this engine might be a simpler option.

You design report templates in DOCX or other supported formats with placeholders for your data. The engine fills these placeholders with data from your application during report generation. LINQ syntax within the templates allows you to access and manipulate that data for a more dynamic report.

LINQ Reporting Engine operates with templates based on plain text tags, allowing users to define expressions for report building. In contrast, Aspose.Words Mail Merge works with templates based on mail merge fields. LINQ Reporting Engine offers flexibility in expression syntax, supporting a subset of C# language.

The engine’s key advantage lies in its built-in support for numerous features missing in Mail Merge. These include support for multiple data sources, compatibility with various data source types (such as Custom .NET objects, ADO.NET objects, JSON, XML, CSV), use of straightforward C#-based expression syntax in templates (extended for ADO.NET and other data sources), integration of LINQ extension methods for data manipulations in templates, dynamic chart creation, inherent support for HTML insertion, dynamic merging of table cells, and control over reporting template syntax errors.

The LINQ Reporting Engine sequentially evaluates expressions against a provided data source object. The results are then processed based on their roles, and corresponding tags in the template are replaced with the appropriate content.

While composing expressions, users can utilize a subset of the C# language that adheres to C# Language Specification 5.0. Common data manipulations like grouping and sorting are included in the expression syntax in the form of IEnumerable extension methods.

The LINQ Reporting Engine for .NET plugin serves as an extension to our File Processor plugins. Once you load a report template in the format of your chosen File Processor plugin, you can leverage the LINQ Reporting Engine plugin to insert data from your data source into the template. The generated report can be saved in the same format as the loaded template. Additionally, you have the flexibility to convert the result to another format using the Converter plugin combined with an appropriate File Processor plugin.

Within LINQ Reporting Engine for .NET, you can merge a loaded report template and data using the LINQ Reporting Engine plugin in combination with Aspose.Words File Processor plugins. Loading and saving formats for the selected File Processor plugin are available for work in LINQ Reporting Engine for .NET.

Aspose.Words LINQ Reporting Engine for .NET is widely used in various industries, including software or hardware development, retail, healthcare, banking, enterprise management, automotive, aviation, logistics, delivery, mining, and the media and entertainment industry.

Visit the Aspose.Words GitHub repository for complete examples and data files.