Greetings, Devs!

Many of you knew Russ Fustino as the Guy with the Toolshed. He’s now working for our newest Friend of the Community, GrapeCity.

He’s also toting around FlipCam and becoming the historian of the Florida .Dev Community. http://gvtv.gcpowertools.com/ has all of it – it’s a great site and you can keep an eye on what the community is up to.

He’ll do Silverlight Reporting on Thursday, 8/11 at the Polaris Center. We’re extremely happy to have him back.

We’ll see you there – Polaris Center is 1265 Creekside Parkway – Naples. We meet on the 4th Floor.

Follow after the jump for the bio and synopsis:

Topic: Reporting in Silverlight.

Join Russ Fustino as he takes a tour of the new ActiveReports 6 Silverlight Report Viewer.

He will show how this component is designed for reporting in Microsoft Silverlight 4 and higher. See how the Silverlight Report Viewer is simple, lightweight, flexible, localizable, and easy to customize for quick end user deployment. It includes these features:

  • Preview reports loaded from a file, document stream, ASPX page, RPX Handler, or WCF service.
  • End-user toolbar with Table of Contents (TOC), Thumbnails, Print, Search, Zoom, and Navigation buttons, plus you can add your own custom buttons.
  • Printing support with an extra print-to-PDF option.
  • Full UI customization with Themes. Use Silverlight Viewer XAML template to customize the look of the UI. We provide pre-customized templates in six useful themes.
  • Localization support. Use resource files (*.resx) to create custom localizations of all text in the UI. We provide pre-localized satellite assemblies for Chinese, Japanese, and Russian.
  • Out-of-browser support

Russ Fustino is a highly experienced software developer with a passion for conveying relevant, current, and future software development technologies and tools through live seminars, teaching, and internet video productions.  He enlightened, entertained and educated 100’s of Thousands of developers nationwide as a former Developer Evangelist for Microsoft. Russ now heads up Developer Evangelism at GrapeCity PowerTools Group as a Senior Developer Evangelist.