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Could you please provide some information on sticontainer vs stipanel? Is there any best practice on when to use which?

On my computer, I was not able to turn on StiContainer in the designer, but report designer from before using StiContainer still works.

thank you.

sw

StiPanel is used for the Form Designer within a report. It acts as a wrapper around the standard winforms panel.

StiContainer is a component used on a page within a report. It behaves like a panel but is specific to report layout and gets rendered by the report engine.

Hi,

In the latest versions the StiContainer component was replaced with StiPanel component.

StiPanel now can have rendered columns and also has a CanBreak property. This is the main differences from the StiContainer component from previous versions.

Also please see "Containers" category in the Demo.exe sample application.

Thank you.