Professional Crystal Reports for Visual Studio.NET

Welcome to the second edition of Professional Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET. Crystal Reports is one
of the world’s leading software packages for creating interactive reports that can be integrated into a
wide range of Windows and Web applications. With more than four million licenses shipped, Crystal
Reports is the leader among Windows report writers. Crystal Reports has been in the Visual Studio box
since 1993, but with the introduction of Visual Studio .NET 2002, a new version, Crystal Reports .NET,
was integrated more closely than ever before. And with the release of Visual Studio .NET 2003, the bar
has been raised even higher, with tighter integration and more reporting options. This book will detail
the functionality provided with Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET 2003 and how, when, and where
you should integrate reports into your .NET applications.



Why incorporate reports into applications? Virtually all applications need to present data to users, but
any work beyond basic formatting — charts or conditional formatting, for example — can be very complex
to program manually. In this book, we will provide you with the practical, high value, real-world
information that you need to understand the array of tools that Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET
provides for developers, so that you can immediately begin creating rich reports that can be integrated
into your Windows- and Web-based applications.
This book does not attempt to be all-inclusive, and it will not teach basic .NET techniques. To be able to
deliver a functional guide to Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET, we assume that you have a grasp of
essential programming techniques — in this case, a knowledge of programming in Visual Basic .NET and
experience using Visual Studio .NET — and that you can apply these skills to a new technology.
Examples are carefully chosen to demonstrate the capabilities of Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET
and aid you in understanding the techniques that you can apply when you begin to use this technology
in your .NET applications.


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