Welcome to the Majorsilence Reporting (formerly My-FyiReporting) wiki.

Introduction

Majorsilence Reporting is a powerful, open-source .NET reporting framework designed for developers who need to create, design, and deliver rich, reports. Supporting modern .NET versions (8.0), it provides a flexible and extensible platform for building reports from a variety of data sources. With a drag-and-drop designer, multiple viewer options, and cross-platform support, Majorsilence Reporting is ideal for both desktop and web applications. Whether you need to generate reports programmatically or empower users with a visual designer, this project offers the tools and documentation to get you started quickly.

The core of Majorsilence Reporting supports Linux and macOS for server-side application report generation. Only the WinForms-based designer and viewer are Windows-only.

For a more technical introduction please see the main project page.

• Active project? Yes, it's still maintained and developed as of 2025.
• Licence - is it totally free?
• Support - there is a Google Group and GitHub Discussions page.

Quick start

using Majorsilence.Reporting.RdlCreator;

// One time per app instance
RdlEngineConfig.RdlEngineConfigInit();

string dataProvider = "[PLACEHOLDER/Json/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/MySQL.NET/Firebird.NET 2.0/Microsoft.Data.Sqlite/PostgreSQL";
var create = new Majorsilence.Reporting.RdlCreator.Create();

var report = await create.GenerateRdl(dataProvider,
    connectionString,
    "SELECT CategoryID, CategoryName, Description FROM Categories",
    pageHeaderText: "DataProviderTest TestMethod1");

string filepath = System.IO.Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory, "PLACEHOLDER.pdf");
var ofs = new Majorsilence.Reporting.Rdl.OneFileStreamGen(filepath, true);
await report.RunGetData(null);
await report.RunRender(ofs, Majorsilence.Reporting.Rdl.OutputPresentationType.PDF);

Index Page

Majorsilence Reporting Wiki contents page.

Screenshots

• Screenshots

Configuration and Setup

• Required References
• Database Providers
  • Json Data Provider
  • PostgreSQL Connection
  • Microsoft SQL 2019/2022/2025 Connection
  • Microsoft SQL Compact Edition Connections - legacy v4 branch only
  • OLEDB and Microsoft Access
• Downloads
• Linux - PDF export and Fonts
• Localization

RdlCmd

• Using RdlCmd
• PHP - Generate Reports
• Python - Generate Reports
• Ruby - Generate Reports

Reporting Server

• Reporting Server Overview

Code

• Pass a Datatable to Report (from c#)
• Change sql string from code
• Pass an Image to report (from c#)
• Embed the designer in your own application (c# and vb)
• Winform Majorsilence Reporting Viewer(c#)
• Report Viewer Events
• WPF Majorsilence Reporting Viewer (c#)
• GTK# Majorsilence Reporting Viewer (c#)
• Set Connection String - Runtime
• Report Designer Control
• Hyperlink Custom Action - .NET Viewer Control
• Generate report and export pdf without GUI
• Code First Reports and Documents
  • Programmatic report creation
  • Programmatic pdf document creation

Source Code

• Building from Source and Contributions

Windows Only

Report Designer (Windows Only)

• Create a New Report
• Designer Basics
• Formulas
• Barcodes and QR Codes
• Adding a New Column to a Report

Report Viewer (Windows Only)

• Calling the Viewer exe as a system command
• Viewer and toolstrip user controls

ASP.NET (Windows Only)

• ASP.NET Report Control - net48 - v4 branch

Examples (Windows Only)

• Dynamic Connection String
  • Also see https://github.com/majorsilence/My-FyiReporting/wiki/Set-Connection-String---Runtime
• Set report data from code
• ASP.NET Control - net48
• Designer Control - Wpf and Winform
• Sample Report Viewer with tool strip

User interface tutorials

ReportingCloud (another fork) has made some tutorials for using the designer and creating reports. http://sourceforge.net/projects/reportingcloud/files/

Older

• Tutorial
• Original fyireporting docs - external link