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Because I blog about Crystal Reports occasionally, and created a helper class to assist in integrating it into .Net applications, I get a lot of questions from people that have problems running their reports. Especially in production environments after...
I never had to do anything with SAP my self, other than interfacing from a .Net application. But since SAP has purchased Business Objects, I find I have to deal with them more and more. Why? Well, since SAP bought Business Objects, who bought Crystal...
I know, for a lot of Microsoft developers Crystal Reports (CR) is a no-go area. But I know that a lot of developers are using it, whether they like it or not. Because of my posts about CR, and more specifically my CrystalHelper class, I'm asked how...
I just spent 4 hours of figuring out why the reports we developed using Crystal Reports would not show the graphs after being deployed to our production server. We checked everything from access rights to proper installation of Crystal reports on the...
In this weblog, I've regularly posted examples of stuff I created to help me use Crystal Reports in .Net applications. To make life easier I created a small class library which contains the code from all the posts I've done sofar, as well as some...
Business Objects have introduced a new web site, Diamond.businessobjects.com . Well not entirely new. But it has been up since 18 July 2006 so it's not old. The new support site is setup to provide information to developers on the Business Objects reporting...
Yesterday I received an email from a colleague whom I worked with on a Windows Forms project a few months ago. We had implemented Crystal Reports in that application to generate reports and Word documents. The application has since been deployed several...
It is possible to add parameters to reports. Using these parameters you can allow users to set date ranges, or pass other information to a report. Using the following method, you can set the parameters: /// <summary> /// Set value for report parameters...
Novita Wegbrands, a colleague of mine, needed to hide the tabs that are usually shown in the Crystal reports viewer. Either that, or change the default "MainReport" description. She found some code here on forums.belution.com/en/crystal that suited her...
I have used Crystal Reports in a number of .Net projects. It is shipped with Visual Studio 2003 and will also be part of Visual Studio 2005. If you want to use Crystal in your application, you will need to register the version that comes with Visual Studio...
When Visual Studio 2005 was announced, I always assumed that Crystal Reports would no longer be integrated. When Reporting Services was introduced, I always assumed that it would replace Crystal Reports for report development. But I was wrong! When Visual...
In my current project we use type DataSets as a source for the reports we build using Crystal Reports for VS.Net. How this works can be found in the Crystal Reports knowledge base , and more specific in this document . One of the challenges there was...