1.7. Summary

Crystal Reports for .NET is a great tool for turning an ordinary ASP.NET application into an extraordinary one. As you can see, it is quite simple to get up-and-running to create a report, and there are a whole host of options for displaying the report. Hopefully, this Wrox Blox gave you a good introduction to the tool and will enable you to get started immediately. After you are comfortable with the basics, you can explore the plethora of options for creating more complex reports that allow for subreports, drill-through reports, disconnected reports, and the countless formatting options they offer. Good luck with your first report, and if a user asks for a nice, printable document of some data in a database, you now have a tool ...

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