Software:List & Label

List & Label

Developer(s)	combit GmbH
Initial release	1992 (1992)
Stable release	27 / 21 October 2021 (2021-10-21)
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Available in	English, German, French, Czech, Danish, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Slovak, Japanese, Simplified Chinese
Type	Reporting software
License	Proprietary
Website	www.combit.com

List & Label is a professional reporting tool for software developers. It provides comprehensive design, print and export functions. The software component runs on Microsoft Windows and can be implemented in desktop, cloud and web applications. List & Label can be used to create user-defined dashboards, lists, invoices, forms and labels. It supports many development environments, frameworks and programming languages such as Microsoft Visual Studio, Embarcadero RAD Studio, .NET Framework, .NET Core, ASP.NET, C++, Delphi, Java, C Sharp and some more. List & Label either retrieves data from various sources via data binding, or works database independent. Reports are designed and created in the so-called List & Label Designer and then exported into a multitude of formats like PDF, Excel, XHTML and RTF. Since version 27 a web report designer for ASP.NET MVC is available.

History

The product was first released in 1992 by combit. The current version is 27, released on 21 October 2021.

Features

Report Designer

The Designer enables users to graphically layout the report. It offers report objects such as tables, charts, crosstabs, gauges, HTML, conditionally formatted text, barcodes, matrix codes, and graphics, and is extensible using third-party add-ons. User applications can interact with the report via the programmable object model of the report. An HTML5 viewer is also available.

Web Report Designer

The web report designer works browser-based and independent from printer drivers and spoolers - that makes deployments to the cloud easier. Just like the use of the Visual Studio deployment pipeline.

Data Sources

Depending on the programming language, the product offers automatic support for data sources:

• Databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, IBM Db2, SQLite
• XML data, CSV
• Business objects
• Data sources that can be accessed via OLE DB, ODBC or ADO.NET
• LINQ data and data from web services
• GraphQL

Additionally, the product offers support for unbound data and can be extended to support other data sources via interfaces.

Output Options

• Printer
• Image Formats (JPEG, BMP, EMF, TIFF, PNG, SVG, HEIF, WebP)
• Document Formats: PDF, PDF/A, Word (DOCX), Excel (XLS), PowerPoint (PPTX)
• HTML, XHTML, MHTML
• Barcodes
• Plain Text, RTF, CSV, JSON
• XML, ZIP, Email, JSON
• List & Label preview file

Target Audience

List & Label can be used in Windows development environments. While it competes most notably on the Microsoft .NET platform with other products such as Crystal Reports, SQL Server Reporting Services, ActiveReports, there are few competing products for other programming languages (e.g. Progress, Alaska Xbase++, Visual DataFlex).

Awards

• Reader's Choice Award 2005–2008
• Top 100 Publisher Award Component Source 2013-2014, 2014-2015,2016, 2018, 2019, 2020