Sams Teach Yourself Crystal Reports® 9 in 24 Hours

Chapter 24. Crystal Reports in Applications—a Developer's Perspective

In Hour 23, you learned about the various methods for distributing reports. Sometimes, the only requirement is to get the report into a business user's hands, potentially by printing a hard copy. However, this hour focuses on more advanced requirements, which involve delivering reports electronically to business users in the form of a custom application. Sometimes, the entire purpose of the application is just to display reports, but more commonly, reporting is just a component of the surrounding application, which has another purpose such as a general ledger or inventory management.

In this hour, you will learn about the developer tools available to you in Crystal Reports ...