Thread: Crystal Reports

Hi,

Can anyone explain Crystal Reports using .NET. Thanks in advance.

Pavan

Your question is too much theoritical to explain over here. It is beyond the scope of this discussion to expalin all that here. Please go through some good book for the same. You can easily find all that by little web searching. I'd suggest you have a look around the web for tutorials. You see, we're not really much of a tutorial or "getting started" site. We're more geared toward helping developers who run into bugs in their code.

Hi Frndzz,
I am in a big confusion whether crystal reports belongs to cognos or bo... My doubt is in BO web intelligence reports can be constructed... so how cum these crystal reports belongs to BO. Or first these crystal reports r made n then web intelligence reports are published through this crystal reports. wat actually these crystal reports are.. these are seperate reporting tool other than BO and Cognos??
FRNZZZ, Do reply me as soon as possible...

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Anand T

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Anand T

Originally Posted by pavan.kasinadhuni

Hi,

Can anyone explain Crystal Reports using .NET. Thanks in advance.

Pavan

Ok, let me help you in a small way. Crystal Reports although purchased by Business Objects now is a former independent reporting tool, seagate. Which means, you can create a report such as the normal one or cross tab with title, sub title, groups, sub groups, summary totals, page number like that, or just like the common daily, monthly reports you see. In Crystal, you can use ODBC as your connector/connection string to connect to your data source which can then be an oracle, sql server, olap cube depending on version or with the latest one using Universe of the business objects. This will then be displayed as records to the report. After you have created the report, you now want it displayed into your PC. Going back to your question ... how would you use it in .NET perspective. OK, if you have created a system which could be an application/business system or web system you could integrate the reports you've created in Crystal into that .NET system. You should include few lines after the event in the .NET system that would call the report such as the connection ... the name of the report or the parameters you need to pass to make the report dynamic. So ... that is how .NET and Crystal Reports work on each other.

Hope it helps.