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<h3>Introduction</h3>
<p><b>Open Door</b> is an open source, .Net, general purpose, reporting, charting and query tool that you can integrate into Windows applications and ASP.Net Web applications. It may be used with any ODBC compliant database.</p>
<p>It enables your users to create and edit reports, charts, invoices and query screens with 'drill-down'. They may be viewed, printed or output to a variety of destinations including HTML, PDF, Word and Excel
<p>Source code is provided in its entirety, enabling you to enhance and extend the base features to exactly meet your requirements.</p>
<p>To modify and extend the application, the only requirements are Visual Studio 2008 Express and SQL Server 2008 Express - both of which are free and may be downloaded from <a href=
"http://www.microsoft.com/Express">www.microsoft.com/Express</a></p>
<p>We welcome your contributions and feedback. Please submit any enhancements, additional features, bug fixes or general feedback to <a href=
"mailto:opendoor@accountingoffice.co.uk">opendoor@accountingoffice.co.uk</a> and we will incorporate all that we can into future releases of the program.</p>
<p>Typical uses for <b>Open Door</b> are:</p>
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<li>Producing management reports and charts.</li>
<li>Producing standard documents such as invoices or statements.</li>
<li>Adding 'drill down' capabilities to an application.</li>
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<p>Some of the <b>Open Door</b> components may be useful to you in their own right. They include:</p>
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<li>A charting utility.</li>
<li>A grid that may be bound to a SQL query or a business object.</li>
<li>A lightweight data access engine.</li>
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<p>This version of the software comprises:</p>
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<li>A basic application for creating, editing, viewing and printing documents.</li>
<li>Another version of the same application running in an MDI parent window.</li>
<li>A full set of source code for all the components.</li>
<li>This help.</li>
<li>Source documents for this help.</li>
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<p>To begin using Open Door see <a href = "getting_started.htm">Getting Started</a></p>
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