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Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports

By : Mahmoud Elkoush
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Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports

By: Mahmoud Elkoush

Overview of this book

<p>Reports are documents that present focused, salient content to a specific audience. Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application that will help you design and generate reports from a wide range of data sources. It helps you summarize a good deal of information in a visually appealing manner.</p> <p>"Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports" is a practical, hands-on guide that will provide you with a number of clear, step-by-step exercises, and help you take advantage of the real power of Crystal Reports. This book will not only help you create effective reports, but also teach you how to create a reporting application.</p> <p>"Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports" will guide you through the installation of Crystal Reports and Visual Studio. As you progress from one chapter to the next, you will gradually build a reporting application. You will also learn how to select the right data, and enhance your report by grouping and sorting data. This book will also help you create chart reports to improve your report design. With this book, you will learn how to create a complete reporting application and a wide variety of reports.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter we learned how to use charts to build fantastic and powerful reports. We have seen that Crystal Reports support many types of charts and how easy it is to use these charts.

This chapter was the last one in our book. We learned how to create a reporting application from beginning to the end. I tried to give knowledge to the reader not only about tools such as Crystal Reports but also tried to teach them the skills and techniques that may help them to use these tools quickly and easily. We have seen how to design the application, and what tools we can use to create our application. We learned how to install our tools, how to use each tool, and how these tools communicate with each other. We learned Crystal Reports tools such as database expert, parameters, grouping, sorting, lines, and boxes. We learned to create different types of reports such as tabular, cross-tab and charts, and how to mix these types in one report. We learned how to display our reports in Visual...