# Text Control Document Server Reporting: Typical Applications > The TX Text Control Document Server provides .NET reporting with mail merge for invoices, dashboards, barcode product lists, and master-detail sales views. Templates use MS Word-compatible formats with nested repeating blocks, 2D and 3D charts, and Adobe PDF export capabilities. - **Author:** Bjoern Meyer - **Published:** 2013-06-26 - **Modified:** 2026-07-17 - **Description:** The TX Text Control Document Server provides .NET reporting with mail merge for invoices, dashboards, barcode product lists, and master-detail sales views. Templates use MS Word-compatible formats with nested repeating blocks, 2D and 3D charts, and Adobe PDF export capabilities. - **4 min read** (634 words) - **Tags:** - Tutorial - **Web URL:** https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2013/06/26/text-control-document-server-reporting-typical-applications/ - **LLMs URL:** https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2013/06/26/text-control-document-server-reporting-typical-applications/llms.txt - **LLMs-Full URL:** https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2013/06/26/text-control-document-server-reporting-typical-applications/llms-full.txt --- The **Document Server**, part of TX Text Control .NET for Windows Forms, WPF and ASP.NET, provides extensive [reporting and mail merge](https://www.textcontrol.com/technology/reporting/) functionality and gives you all required tools to integrate powerful reporting into your .NET based applications. Invoice Generation ------------------ [![Text Control Document Server Reporting: Typical Applications](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2013/06/26/a/assets/tx_reporting_typical_apps_1_zoom.webp "Text Control Document Server Reporting: Typical Applications")](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2013/06/26/a/assets/tx_reporting_typical_apps_1_zoom.webp) An invoice is probably the most typical report that is created using TX Text Control. It consists of static information such as the company letterhead and the footer, dynamic data like an address block and repeating blocks to list the articles. These blocks can be nested as well to visualize master-detail relationships. - Compatible to MS Word (DOC, DOCX, RTF) - Repeating blocks - Master-detail views - Save as Adobe PDF and PDF/A - Powerful table support - Floating objects - Fully featured **editor included** Dashboard Reports ----------------- [![Text Control Document Server Reporting: Typical Applications](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2013/06/26/a/assets/tx_reporting_typical_apps_2_zoom.webp "Text Control Document Server Reporting: Typical Applications")](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2013/06/26/a/assets/tx_reporting_typical_apps_2_zoom.webp) Dashboard reports present information highlights on a single page. Using TX Text Control, such reports can be created and exported to Adobe PDF in a pixel-perfect manner. Thanks to the powerful 2D and 3D charting support, data can be visualized in more than 30 different chart types. The complete data merging is done in a single line of code. Load the template - merge data - create the document. - Pixel-perfect WYSIWYG editor - Powerful 2D and 3D charts - Full integration in your .NET applications - Merge data with 1 line of code Barcode Product Lists --------------------- [![Text Control Document Server Reporting: Typical Applications](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2013/06/26/a/assets/tx_reporting_typical_apps_3_zoom.webp "Text Control Document Server Reporting: Typical Applications")](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2013/06/26/a/assets/tx_reporting_typical_apps_3_zoom.webp) In today's processes, barcodes are included everywhere: Invoices, delivery notes or admission tickets. Barcodes are used to store digital data on paper that can be acquired easily for further processing using laser-based scanners, cameras or mobile phones. Barcodes of type TXTextControl.Barcode.TXBarcodeControl can be added to a template and merged like merge fields. Each barcode object gets a name that matches a database column in your data source. - Supports industry standard barcode types: QRCode, Aztec, DataMatrix, EAN, Intelligent Mail - Direct data binding - Repeat barcodes in repeating blocks Master-Detail Sales Lists ------------------------- [![Text Control Document Server Reporting: Typical Applications](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2013/06/26/a/assets/tx_reporting_typical_apps_4_zoom.webp "Text Control Document Server Reporting: Typical Applications")](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2013/06/26/a/assets/tx_reporting_typical_apps_4_zoom.webp) Using TX Text Control, unlimited levels of blocks can be nested to visualize master-detail views such as product lists divided by product groups. TX Text Control is finding the data relations automatically in order to nest the blocks automatically. - Unlimited nested levels - Repeat everything, not only table rows - Table header support - Odd and even page headers and footers - Automatic page numbering These are a few samples of the typical applications. TX Text Control's Flow Type Layout Reporting is very flexible and can be used to automate all kinds of reports and documents. Test our samples and download the trial version today. [Download a fully featured, 30 day trial version ](https://www.textcontrol.com/product/ "Fully Featured, 30 Day Trial Versions") --- ## About Bjoern Meyer As CEO, Bjoern is the visionary behind our strategic direction and business development, bridging the gap between our customers and engineering teams. His deep passion for coding and web technologies drives the creation of innovative products. If you're at a tech conference, be sure to stop by our booth - you'll most likely meet Bjoern in person. With an advanced graduate degree (Dipl. Inf.) in Computer Science, specializing in AI, from the University of Bremen, Bjoern brings significant expertise to his role. In his spare time, Bjoern enjoys running, paragliding, mountain biking, and playing the piano. - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjoernmeyer/) - [X](https://x.com/txbjoern) - [GitHub](https://github.com/bjoerntx) --- ## Related Posts - [Windows Forms Tutorial: Create Your First Windows Forms C# Application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2024/08/26/windows-forms-tutorial-create-your-first-windows-forms-csharp-application/llms.txt) - [How to Mail Merge MS Word DOCX Documents in ASP.NET Core C#](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2023/10/16/how-to-mail-merge-ms-word-docx-documents-in-aspnet-core-csharp/llms.txt) - [Creating an Angular Document Editor Application with a Node.js WebSocket Server](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2023/08/24/creating-an-angular-document-editor-application-with-a-nodejs-websocket-server/llms.txt) - [Adding SVG Watermarks to Documents](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2022/01/28/adding-svg-watermarks-to-documents/llms.txt) - [Using MailMerge in ASP.NET Core 6 Web Applications](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2022/01/27/using-mailmerge-in-aspnet-core-6-web-applications/llms.txt) - [DocumentViewer for React Prerelease](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/10/27/document-viewer-for-react-prerelease/llms.txt) - [New DocumentViewer Signature Tutorial Sample](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/08/18/new-documentviewer-signature-tutorial-sample/llms.txt) - [Creating an ASP.NET MVC DocumentViewer Application With Razor](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-an-aspnet-mvc-documentviewer-application-with-razor/llms.txt) - [Creating Your First Windows Forms Application with C#](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-your-first-windows-forms-application-with-csharp/llms.txt) - [Creating Your First WPF Application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-your-first-wpf-application/llms.txt) - [Creating a WPF Ribbon Application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-a-wpf-ribbon-application/llms.txt) - [Integrate Document Editing into any HTML Client using the HTML Widget](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/integrate-document-editing/llms.txt) - [Creating an ASP.NET MVC Application With Razor](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-an-aspnet-mvc-application-with-razor/llms.txt) - [Creating A Windows Forms Ribbon Application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-a-windows-forms-ribbon-application/llms.txt) - [Creating Your First ASP.NET Reporting Application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-your-first-aspnet-reporting-application/llms.txt) - [Creating an ASP.NET Web Forms AJAX Application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-an-aspnet-web-forms-ajax-application/llms.txt) - [Creating a WebSocket Server Project with Node.js](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-a-websocket-server-project-with-nodejs/llms.txt) - [Creating an Angular Document Editor Application](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2020/01/01/creating-an-angular-document-editor-application/llms.txt) - [ReportingCloud .NET Core Quickstart Tutorial](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2019/07/24/reportingcloud-dotnet-core-quickstart-tutorial/llms.txt) - [Document Permissions and Password Encryption](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2019/07/05/document-permissions-and-password-encryption/llms.txt) - [New Online Sample: Build your First Report](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2019/07/03/build-your-first-report/llms.txt) - [Create your First Document with ReportingCloud](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2019/02/19/create-your-first-document-with-reportingcloud/llms.txt) - [MailMerge: Starting Each Merge Block on a New Page](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2016/09/09/mailmerge-starting-each-merge-block-on-a-new-page/llms.txt) - [Windows Forms and WPF: End a List on Return when Line is Empty](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2016/08/26/windows-forms-and-wpf-end-a-list-on-return-when-line-is-empty/llms.txt) - [Using IFormattedText Objects to Access Elements Across All TextParts in a Document](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2016/08/25/using-iformattedtext-objects-to-access-elements-across-all-textparts-in-a-document/llms.txt)