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Introduction
Welcome to . Crystal Reports is one of the world's leading software packages for creating interactive reports. The reports let users view data and the trends therein, and they can be published on the Web or integrated within 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 the latest version, Crystal Reports .NET, is now integrated more closely than ever before with Visual Studio .NET. This book will detail the functionality provided with Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET, 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.
We begin with an overview of Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET, introducing the technology and what we can use it for, and the benefits of integrating Crystal Reports with the .NET Framework. We then go on to create some reports, and learn how to integrate them into both Windows and web-based applications. We examine XML Web Services, and how to work with ADO.NET and formulas and logic in our reports, then finish by developing distributed reporting applications, and looking at how to deploy the applications we have created throughout the book.
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.
Who Is This Book For?
This book is for programmers who want a comprehensive guide to the functionality included with Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET. It's assumed that you have some knowledge of .NET and experience with Visual Studio .NET.
This book is mainly aimed at readers who have some experience with Crystal Reports. However, the book will prove valuable for readers who are new to Crystal Reports, and want a guide to this free reporting tool they've discovered within Visual Studio .NET.
