Chapter 20. Using Crystal Reports

OBJECTIVES

  • Learn to create simple reports using Crystal Reports for .NET

  • Learn to display reports in the context of ASP.NET

  • Filter rows within reports

At some point, you'll need to display data, gathered from some data source, in the context of an ASP.NET page. You might consider writing code to create the report yourself, but you'd soon realize that it's quite tricky to create your own report writer.

Luckily, you don't have to do all the work yourself. Visual Studio .NET provides Crystal Reports for .NET, and this tool can make it easy for you to design and display professional-looking reports from within your ASP.NET applications. In addition to the standard report-designing tools, Crystal Reports also provides ...

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