- Paperback: 525 pages
- Publisher: BISCHOF SYSTEMS; illustrated edition edition (1 Aug 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0974953652
- ISBN-13: 979-0974953655
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 998,224 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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I wrote this book from the perspective of a programmer wanting to learn how to integrate reports within a .NET application. I've been working with Crystal Reports since Visual Basic 3 and it's always been difficult to find technical information on report writing. I spent a year and a half researching what .NET programmers need to successfully create, implement and deploy a Crystal Reports application. I even put the book on the internet for everyone to read for free all of last year. This generated an incredible number of emails from programmers telling me what they liked, disliked, and what was missing from the book. I learned that there are two distinct types of .NET programmers using Crystal Reports. The first type of programmer doesn't have much experience with Crystal Reports and wants a series of tutorials to help them build reports from scratch. For this programmer I wrote 13 chapters which teach you everything about adding reports to ASP.NET and Windows applications. It starts with the basics of building reports to adding charts, crosstab reports, sorting and grouping, subreports and using the formula editor with Basic syntax and Crystal syntax. The second type of programmer has been using Crystal Reports for years and is mostly concerned with how to do technical runtime customization of reports. For this programmer I researched and diagrammed the undocumented report object models. I included dozens of examples in both VB.NET and C# to show you how to modify reports, manipulate different data sources (XML, ADO.NET, ODBC, OLE DB, stored procedures with parameters), modify formulas and report parameters, and integrate .NET with the RAS and RDC. The dozens of emails I received when the book was online were instrumental for doing a major revision of many chapters before publishing the book in hardcopy format. Since releasing the book I continue to receive more emails from people. They regret that the free book isn't online anymore, but understand that it couldn't last forever and that the hardcopy version is even better. I hope you like it and that it helps you achieve your reporting goals. September 2004 Update: Due to high demand, I did a second printing of the book. I took advantage of this opportunity to go through the book and remove all grammatical errors. The content is the same, but the typos have been corrected.
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This review is from: Crystal Reports .NET Programming (Paperback)
If you need to teach yourself Crystal Reports for dot net, this is the book for you. It's written in a non condescending way (unlike many IT books) and doesn't assume the reader has any knowledge of reporting tools. Plenty of examples, all available as VB or C.
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4.2 out of 5 stars (39 customer reviews) 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Invaluable as tutorial and as a reference,
By Richard J. Dudley - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Crystal Reports .NET Programming (Paperback)
Let's get this straight from the beginning--this is not a book about Crystal Reports 10, nor Crystal Reports 9. This is about Crystal Reports .NET, which is a different version altogether. The second part of this book does a great job of discussing the rich programming model of the CR.NET engine, and also indicates clearly the limitations of the CR.NET engine (CR.NET is far more limited than CR9 or CR10--that's why it's bundled with Visual Studio). The first part of this book is a very good resource for people who have not worked with Crystal Reports Design, or may be new to the Visual Studio interface. The numerous examples are given in both C# and VB.NET. This book was self-published and self-edited by the author, so you'll find an occasional typo. Save your money on the WROX Press book by David McAmis--that one is far more riddled with errors far less useful.
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If only someone at Crystal could write like this!!!,
By Stephan Onisick - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Crystal Reports .NET Programming (Paperback)
A GodSend!!After spending $2000 for Crystal 10 Enterprise-I was appalled by the lack of documentation, examples and tutorials. Most Crystal Report Books spend a lot of time on the Report Designer which in my humble opinion, from a programmer's perspective, is superfluous. Brian excels in both explaining Crystal Reports and integrating it into .Net for programmers. Brian gives you the object model and examples of specific methods. These are readily useable from VB.Net to ASP.Net. Within about 2 hours after perusing his chapter on exporting and deploying, I was able to set up a report in an asp.net application (with a few adjustments). Consider me a fan. I look forward to other works from Brian. 17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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This guy is NOT with the program,
By Mary Roach "Lady Bug" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Crystal Reports .NET Programming (Paperback)
You know, the program that says all technical books have to explain programming in excruciating detail for non-programmers, even when the book title says "for experienced programmers"? The program that results in books on one small topic will thereby be expanded to 1600 pages, so we can charge $40 or $50? THAT program! I'm thinking this guy published it himself. It's pretty darn clear and well-written, with very few grammatical errors in spite of the lack of a professional editing staff. If you're a VB.Net programmer, or ASP.Net, or C# programmer, and you already have adequate reference books for doing the rest of your work, and all you need is a good & thorough reference to Crystal Reports, THIS is the book you want to get.
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