# Reporting Q&A in the MSDN Magazine, August Issue > The MSDN Magazine August issue features a Q&A on Text Control Reporting covering flow-type layout design, mail merge integration across WinForms, WPF, and ASP.NET, and key differences from banded report designers. It also previews the upcoming HTML5-based cross-browser editor. - **Author:** Bjoern Meyer - **Published:** 2014-07-31 - **Modified:** 2026-07-17 - **Description:** The MSDN Magazine August issue features a Q&A on Text Control Reporting covering flow-type layout design, mail merge integration across WinForms, WPF, and ASP.NET, and key differences from banded report designers. It also previews the upcoming HTML5-based cross-browser editor. - **3 min read** (495 words) - **Tags:** - Corporate - **Web URL:** https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2014/07/31/reporting-qa-in-the-msdn-magazine-august-issue/ - **LLMs URL:** https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2014/07/31/reporting-qa-in-the-msdn-magazine-august-issue/llms.txt - **LLMs-Full URL:** https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2014/07/31/reporting-qa-in-the-msdn-magazine-august-issue/llms-full.txt --- ![Reporting Q&A in the MSDN Magazine](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2014/07/31/a/assets/msdn.webp "Reporting Q&A in the MSDN Magazine")Recently, I sat down with MSDN Magazine to talk about Text Control products, our Reporting strategy and future products such as our HTML5 Web version of TX Text Control. Read the full interview in the August issue of the [MSDN Magazine](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/default.aspx). ![Q&A: MS Word compatible reporting for the .NET Framework](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2014/07/31/a/assets/screenshot_textcontrol.webp "Q&A: MS Word compatible reporting for the .NET Framework")**Q How do developers typically use Text Control components?** **A** Our products help thousands of developers add mail merge and reporting functionality to their Windows Forms, WPF and ASP.NET applications. They create elegant and powerful business reports with an easy-to-use, MS Word compatible template editing interface. **Q What sets Text Control Reporting apart from other reporting vendors?** **A** Text Control Reporting combines the power of a reporting tool and an easy-to-use WYSIWYG word processor that is fully programmable and embeddable in .NET applications. With Text Control Reporting, users can create documents and templates using ordinary Microsoft Word skills. **Q You call Text Control Reporting “Flow Type Layout Reporting”. What is it?** **A** Banded report designers are limited and not easy to use. Iterating over any data, in any way, across any part of the template is not possible. Using “Flow Type Layout Reporting”, sub-reports for instance are integrated into the document. It is not limited to the report header, the main table and the footer. You can position all kinds of word processing elements in your templates: - Headers and footers - Text frames - Section breaks - Different page sizes and formatting - Nested master-detail views - Images, barcodes and charts **Q What is different for developers?** **A** Text Control Reporting is based on the powerful word processing component TX Text Control. The MS Word compatible template can be merged with a data object (business object) or database content with one line of code. At the same time, Text Control provides a powerful API to customize this merge process completely. The report generation can be fully integrated into the .NET application. **Q You announced a cross-browser HTML5-based Web editor. Tell us more.** **A** TX Text Control X11 will allow the creation of documents and templates using any operating system with an HTML5 capable browser including Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer. Because the product is being built with pure HTML5 and JavaScript, it will have a zero footprint with no client-side browser plugins required. For more detailed information and a 30-day trial version, visit: [https://www.textcontrol.com/technology/reporting/](https://www.textcontrol.com/technology/reporting/) Download the PDF version here: [Download PDF version ](https://s1-www.textcontrol.com/assets/dist/blog/2014/07/31/a/assets/msdn_vp_textcontrol.pdf "MSDN Magazine VP Profile Text Control") --- ## 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 - [Wrapping Up 2023 and Looking Ahead to 2024: Linux, AI and PDF](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2023/12/18/wrapping-up-2023-and-looking-ahead-to-2024/llms.txt) - [New Payment Provider: Update your Credit Card Information](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2023/08/30/new-payment-provider-update-your-credit-card-information/llms.txt) - [2022 Recap: You Asked, We Answered!](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2022/12/22/2022-recap-you-asked-we-answered/llms.txt) - [Text Control and Appeon Announce Expanded Partnership to Enable Enterprise Document Processing for PowerBuilder Users](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2022/05/10/text-control-and-appeon-expanded-partnership/llms.txt) - [Celebrating 30 years of TX Text Control](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2021/04/18/celebrating-thirty-years-of-tx-text-control/llms.txt) - [What a Year! 2019 Recap and Outlook 2020](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2019/12/23/what-a-year-2019-recap-and-outlook-2020/llms.txt) - [Press Release: Text Control and Appeon Sign Agreement](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2019/05/29/press-release-text-control-and-appeon-sign-agreement/llms.txt) - [Announcing the Relaunch of our Website](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2017/09/22/website-relaunch/llms.txt) - [Meet Text Control at Developer Week 2017 (DWX) in Nuremberg](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2017/06/07/meet-text-control-at-developer-week-2017-dwx-in-nuremberg/llms.txt) - [Text Control Received SD Times 100 Award](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2017/06/06/text-control-received-sd-times-100-award/llms.txt) - [Meet Text Control at NDC London 2017: We're Changing the Way You Look at Reporting](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2017/01/03/meet-text-control-at-ndc-london-2017-were-changing-the-way-you-look-at-reporting/llms.txt) - [Text Control Named a Leader in the SD Times 100 Awards 2016...again!](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2016/06/12/text-control-named-a-leader-in-the-sd-times-100-awards-2016again/llms.txt) - [ReportingCloud: Follow the API-first Approach](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2016/05/26/reportingcloud-follow-the-api-first-approach/llms.txt) - [Text Control Announces New Cloud Product: ReportingCloud](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2016/05/25/text-control-announces-new-cloud-product-reportingcloud/llms.txt) - [What a Year 2015 - Deep Functionality. 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