Summary
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET is a powerful addition to the Visual Studio .NET toolset and has been developed to take advantage of the new .NET development framework. Using the Crystal Reports Designer, you can quickly create or modify reports without having to leave the Visual Studio IDE. When it is time to integrate your report into either a Windows or web application, Crystal Reports includes a number of viewers that quickly integrate into your application. With a scalable back-end processing architecture, Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET should be the only tool you need to integrate reporting into your enterprise applications.In the next chapter, we'll move beyond the product overview to actually start creating reports and integrating them into our own development.