Reporting tool comparison

Compare features, prices and licenses with other .NET reporting controls on ComponentSource.

Compare the latest List & Label versions — feature by feature, side by side.

Reporting tool comparison

Compare features, prices and licenses with other .NET reporting controls on ComponentSource.

Compare the latest List & Label versions — feature by feature, side by side.

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Report design features

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Number of supported features 80 164 163 160
Aggregate with previous values
Automatically generated index
Automatically generated table of contents
Expandable regions
Collection variables
Conditional formatting
Crystal Reports compatible
Design schemes
Design schemes per item1111
Design wizard
Drilldown
Embedded Fonts
End User designer
Format Painter
Hyperlink embedding
Interactive sorting
Label support
Label templates
Localization / Internationalization
Multilanguage (language quantity)● (11)● (11)● (11)
Native aggregate functions
Native barcode support (quantity)● (62)● (62)● (60)
Nested tables
Report parameter
Restore last step
Ribbon-UI
Side-by-side reports
True layout for the reports
Unicode, internationalization support
User-defined Functions
User-defined Objects
Web Report Designer
WYSIWYG full page design

Features for users

Report preview features

Beyond the design phase, List & Label also offers extensive preview features that let you test and interact with your reports before deployment. The preview gives you a clear view of how your reports will behave at runtime — including collection variables, expandable regions, and interactive sorting.

You can check every interactive element directly in the preview to ensure your layout, logic, and user interactions work as intended.

Licensing and distribution are also important considerations. Some reporting tools charge extra fees for runtime or per designer when distributing the report designer with your application. These costs can quickly add up and are often difficult to estimate in advance.

However, with List & Label, you can integrate and distribute the report designer at no additional cost, providing a transparent and predictable cost structure.

If your business case involves offering design capabilities to your users — for instance, enabling them to create or customize reports independently — you’ll benefit from a fully featured, royalty-free designer that you can incorporate directly into your product.

Report viewer features

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Expandable regions
Expandable regions (Web)
Interactive sorting
Interactive sorting (Web)
Multilanguage (language quantity)● (11)● (11)● (11)
Report parameter
Report parameter with drilldown
Report parameter with drilldown (Web)
Ribbon-UI
Side-by-side Reports
Subreports
Viewer-Technology – HTML5
Viewer-Technology – Standalone
Viewer-Technology – Windows-Forms
Viewer-Technology – WPF

Barcodes and charts in the reporting tools

Barcodes for your applications

Many business reports depend on barcodes to identify products, documents, or shipments, for example. List & Label includes built-in support for over 60 barcode types, including standards like EAN, Code 128, QR Code, Codablock F, and MicroPDF417.

You can insert barcode objects directly into your report projects — no external dependencies, SDKs, or plug-ins required. Each barcode type can be customized through properties such as size, color, check digit, and module width, giving you full control over the output.

Barcodes are rendered natively in print, preview, and export, ensuring consistent quality across PDF, SVG, and raster formats.

Charts – the more, the better

Charts in List & Label are object-based and highly configurable. In addition to standard chart types (bar, line, pie), the Designer supports Gantt, treemap, waterfall, bubble, and donut charts — all using the same report container model.

You can bind charts to any supported data source, define series and groups dynamically, and use the built-in formula language for calculated values or formatting logic.

Charts render vector-based in most export formats, ensuring optimal scaling in PDF, SVG, and XHTML outputs without post-processing or conversion.

Advanced report objects

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Chart type – Area
Chart type – Bar
Chart type – Bar & Lines mixed
Chart type – Bubbles / Dots
Chart type – Candlestick444
Chart type – Circle / Ring
Chart type – Funnel
Chart type – Lines / Symbols
Chart type – Maps / Shapefiles
Chart type – Radar
Chart type – Range444
Chart type – Rscript
Chart type – Treemap
Chart type – Waterfall444
Crosstab
Data Graphics
Gantt
Gauges / Dashboard-Controls
OLE Container
OLE Container 64 Bit
PDF Object
SVG Object

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Report export features

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BMP
Cloud
CSV
DOC / DOCX
Email (Extended MAPI)
Email (Graph)
Email (Simple MAPI)
Email (SMTP)
EMF
HTML
HTML5
JPEG
JSON
PDF
PDF/A
PNG
PPT / PPTX
RTF
SharePoint
SVG
Text
TIFF
TIFF (Multipage)
WebDAV
XHTML
XLS / XLSX
XML / XAML
XPS

Supported data sources

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ADO
ADO.NET
Azure Cosmos DB
Cassandra
Control binding to data sets
CouchDB
CSV
DB2
Enumerable interface .NET object support
Excel
Firebird
Google Analytics
Google BigQuery
GoogleSheets
GraphQL
IDataProvider (custom data source)
In-Memory
JSON
LINQ
MariaDB
MongoDB
MS SQL Server
Multiple DataSource reports
MySQL
NoSQL
NuoDB
OData
ODBC
OleDB
OpenEdge
Oracle
PostgreSQL
Redis
REST
RSSBus/Cdata
Salesforce
SharePoint
SQLite
Unbound data support
XML

End user licensing

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Royalty Free Report Designer

Supported development environments

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.NET 10
.NET 9
.NET 8
.NET 6
.NET Framework 4.x
COM (ActiveX)
Delphi VCL
DLL
JNI (Java)

Other

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C# scripting
Direct manufacturer support
Filter functions on database level
Framework for mobile apps
German manufacturer
High DPI display support
Interface to third party digital signature solution
More complex control of different printers possible
NuGet
Object Model (DOM)
Simple redistribution
Styling of UI possible
Support for Docker Container
Time zone function for accurate server reporting
VBScript scripting
Windows 11 support
Windows 10 support
ZUGFeRD 1.0 / 2.0 / 2.1, XRechnung

Standalone, fully functional reporting

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Apps (Windows, Android & iOS)
Report Server

1) charts only

2) only programmatically / with scripting

3) not in Designer, but with full demo

4) possible with Rscript

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