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Title: Professional Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET (Programmer to Programmer) by David McAmis ISBN: 0-7645-4403-9 Publisher: Wrox Pub. Date: 23 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Finally... it happened
Comment: I have been developing applications using VB for the past 4 years and Crystal Reports has always been a point of frustration for me. I have tried to use the version that shipped with Visual Studio 6 and with poor functionality and no decent documentation (from Crystal or otherwise), I finally just gave in and bought Active Reports. When I started using .NET, I was happy to find Crystal Reports had been updated but still no manual and poor documentation. I was about to throw in the towel when I came across this book-- it provided the missing link and I am now integrating Crystal Reports into my applications and didn't have to buy any other software to do it. If I had a complaint, it would be that the chapter on data sources doesn't go into a lot of detail on ADO.NET, just how to use it with a report. So if you haven't worked with data sets before, you will probably need to read up on it [at their site] or other similiar sites or grab a book just on ADO.NET if you plan to use it extensively. All in all, it is the best book out there for every .NET developer who finds Crystal Reports as frustrating as I do sometimes!
Rating: 2
Summary: Should have included more detail in the web forms chapter
Comment: I bought the book for the web forms chapter and I found it to be too brief. There is no information about dynamic select statements or parameters as the data source for the reports, only static data sources. The author uses windows forms when he covers these topics.
I am still searching for a good crystal reports.net reference.
MCSD, MCDBA
Rating: 5
Summary: Hands Down The Best Crystal Reports.NET Book
Comment: I have been writing web applications using "Classic" ASP and notepad since it was first introduced with the early versions of IIS and have recently started upgrading these applications to ASP.NET after many months of soul searching. Part of my reluctance to upgrade these applications was that most of them were for simply displaying data and statistics, which I painfully created my own layouts for (as there was little alternative)
So when I saw there was a copy of Crystal Reports included with .NET, I decided to give it a try to see if I could actually use reports instead of presenting the data in my own format and bought this book to help me along.
I can not tell you what a difference that this book as made-- I quickly zipped through the report design part and got straight on to the integration with web forms and found that I could create and integrate a report in a fraction of the time it took me before to do a manual table layout. The book is the right size and is down to the point.
If I had one criticism, it would be that the coverage of report design didn't cover graph formatting in depth, but it did get me enough to get started.
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Title: Crystal Reports(R) 9: The Complete Reference by George Peck ISBN: 007222519X Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 19 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Crystal Reports .NET Programming by Brian Bischof ISBN: 0974953652 Publisher: Brian Bischof Pub. Date: March, 2004 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Microsoft ADO.NET (Core Reference) by David Sceppa ISBN: 0735614237 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Mastering Crystal Reports 9 by Cate McCoy, Gord Maric ISBN: 0782141730 Publisher: Sybex Inc Pub. Date: 14 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET by Dino Esposito ISBN: 0735619034 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 11 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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