A new year is coming, and we have a bunch of new exciting features to work on. And these are not chosen by chance. They aim to solve the problems that you face most often when building reports in your everyday work. We learned about those items, as usual, from the feedback we received from you:
And, I’m very excited to share with you what came up out this collection.
One of the major stories next year will be the Report Server. We hope to release a Preview version with Q1 2015. This Preview will include the actual server implementation where the reports will be stored and a friendly web application for managing and sharing those reports.
New Visual Studio, .NET Framework and ASP.NET MVC versions are on the way. We already support the Preview with Telerik Reporting Q3 2014 SP1. Once Microsoft officially releases, we will make sure everything works smoothly and have a release built with the latest bits.
We are also working on new project and item templates for all Visual Studio supported versions. They should cover some of the most commonly used report setups. The idea is to help you get started faster when building your customer reports. We will probably start with a few and add more later.
The features to follow for the Report Server are:
Along with the usual bug fixing and stabilization efforts, performance and usability improvements we plan to add include:
Many of you requested:
No need to elaborate on them; I know you all are happy to see them listed (phew).
Tell us which feature will make you most happy in 2015. Share what you think about Telerik Reporting roadmap. If you can’t find your favorite, leave a comment below or try the feedback portal. Vote for an existing item or create one to start collecting votes.
Iana Tsolova is Product Manager at Telerik’s DevTools division. She joined the company back in the beginning of 2008 as a Support Officer and has since occupied various positions at Telerik, including Senior Support Officer, Team Lead at one of the ASP.NET AJAX teams and Technical Support Director. Iana’s main interests are web development, reading articles related to geography, wild nature and latest renewable energy technologies.