Microsoft Azure Specifics

• May 29, 2019

The Web Dashboard has exporting specifics when a web application is deployed to Microsoft Azure. If the dashboard or specific dashboard items are exported to PDF or image formats, their content is saved to the Windows Metafile format, which is not supported by Azure. To overcome this limitation, set the DashboardExportSettings.CompatibilityMode property to DashboardExportCompatibilityMode.Restricted at the application startup.

C#

using DevExpress.DashboardCommon;
// ...

void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e) {
    DashboardExportSettings.CompatibilityMode = DashboardExportCompatibilityMode.Restricted;
}

VB.NET

Imports DevExpress.DashboardCommon
' ...

Sub Application_Start(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
    DashboardExportSettings.CompatibilityMode = DashboardExportCompatibilityMode.Restricted
End Sub

In this case, images from the corresponding exported documents will be always rendered as bitmaps.