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Your portal dedicated to providing direction to using Crystal Reports and Crystal Enterprise. Articles, links to community content (newsgroups, listserves etc.), and sample applications links can be found here....

Recent Articles

Creating your First Crystal Report for Use in a .NET Application - 15 Mar 2010 - Have you ever had to create a custom report within an application you have written for a customer? Most developers have, and there are two schools of thought on how developers normally perform this task. Some choose to create the report using the same technology that the application was created in (ASP, WinFrom, WPF) while others choose to use a reporting package such as Crystal Reports. Using a reporting package will help create reports rapidly. This article walk you through the creation of your first report using Crystal Reports.

Crystal Reports: 5 Tests for Top Performance - 01 Mar 2010 - Your masterpiece report is now complete. It doesn't just meet your customer’s expectations, it blows them out of the water. All they want is a beautifully-summarized report that can be displayed in a myriad of ways. Then disaster strikes! You try to run the report for a month against the live database and not the two days worth of test data you used for development, then your report’s runtime goes from twenty seconds to two hours. Every Crystal Reports developer has experienced this situation and it can be one of the most frustrating aspects of report design. Thankfully there are a variety of things that can be done to combat bad performance, any one of which can reap huge benefits...

Crystal Reports: Save Time with Formula Sharing - 22 Feb 2010 - Once a report library grows to a certain size there are always going to be common formulas which are needed repeatedly. Having easier access to them can save a lot of development time.

Automate delivery of Crystal Reports With a Windows Service - 15 Feb 2010 - In this article, Vince demonstrates the creation of a Windows Service to automatically run and send a Crystal Report as an email attachment. After a basic introduction, he examines the creation of the database and windows service with the help of relevant source code and explanations. Towards the end of the article, Vince discusses the steps to be followed in order to install the windows service.

Building Reports using ASP.NET and Crystal Reports - Part 7 Using Subreports to Create Advanced Reports - 14 Dec 2009 -

Building Reports Using ASP.NET and Crystal Reports - Part 6 - Build a Sales Forecast Report Using Parameter Fields - 08 Nov 2009 -

Load Testing Crystal Reports with High Shareability Caching - 28 Oct 2009 -

Building Reports using ASP.NET and Crystal Reports - Part 5 - Creating Reports as a Web Service - 27 Sep 2009 -

Building Reports Using ASP.NET and Crystal Reports - Part 4: Dynamic Grouping - 17 Aug 2009 -

Building Reports using ASP.NET and Crystal Reports - Part 3 - An Invoice Report Using Disconnected Data - 19 Jul 2009 -

How to handle multiple queries simultaneously in Crystal reports connecting from Business object Universe. - 23 Jun 2009 -

Building Reports Using ASP.NET and Crystal Reports - Part 2 - Quarterly Sales Report - 14 Jun 2009 -

Video: Passing Parameters to Crystal Reports Programmatically - 17 May 2009 -

Understanding the Crystal Reports Object Model - 10 May 2009 -

Video: Creating Parameter Fields in Crystal Reports - 03 May 2009 -

Report Design

Creating Professional Reports using Crystal Report for Visual Studio.NET (Part 1) – Feb 10 2004
Creating Professional Reports using Crystal Report for Visual Studio.NET (Part 2) – Feb 11 2004
Creating Professional Reports using Crystal Report for Visual Studio.NET (Part 3) – Feb 12 2004
Creating a Crystal Report for Community Server – May 17 2006

Getting Started

Crystal Licensing Information For Web Developers – Mar 24 2005

Overview of Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET – Feb 10 2004
Review: Crystal Xcelsius – Jan 18 2006

Crystal Reports .NET 2005 FAQ – Mar 7 2005

Recommended Crystal Reports Resources for .NET – May 31 2005

 

Sample Applications

Sample App: FFAssist Using Crystal .NET for VS 2005 - Part 2 – Feb 8 2005
Sample Application: FFAssist Using Crystal .NET for Visual Studio 2005 - Part 3 –May 18 2005

Application Development

Crystal Reports

Decrypting Data in Crystal Reports –Dec 28 2003

Create Crystal Reports on the Fly using ASP.NET – May 3 2005
Creating Dynamic DataSets for Crystal Reports in ASP.NET 2.0 – Feb 28 2006
Automagically displaying a Crystal Reports Parameters - Part 1 – May 7 2004
Automagically displaying a Crystal Reports Parameters - Part II – May 17 2004
Automagically displaying a Crystal Reports Parameters - Part III – May 26 2004
Crystal .Net Stored Procedures with Datasets – Sep 21 2003
Dynamically Embed image Files into Crystal Reports – Nov 22 2005
Opening Crystal Reports in a New Window in ASP.NET – Sep 15 2004

Creating a DotNetNuke Private Assembly with Crystal Reports - Part 1 – Oct 27 2005
Creating a DotNetNuke Private Assembly with Crystal Reports - Part 2 – Nov 15 2005
Creating a DotNetNuke Private Assembly with Crystal Reports - Part 3 – Jan 6 2006
Creating a DotNetNuke Private Assembly with Crystal Reports - Part 4 – Jan 16 2006

 

Test Driven Development for a Business Intelligence Project with Crystal Reports – Jul 5 2005

Test Driven Development for a Business Intelligence Project (Crystal Reports): Part 2 – Aug 15 2005
Test Driven Development for a Business Intelligence Project with Crystal Reports: Part 3 – Aug 29 2005

Crystal Reports PUSH method using ASP.NET – Mar 22 2003

 

Crystal .Net Tips – Oct 30 2003



BusinessObjects Enterprise

Automating Reports with diverse data sources using Business Objects Enterprise Server - Part 1 – Apr 10 2006

Utilizing Business Objects Enterprise Server for Report Automation – Nov 7 2006
Changing Values in a formula Field in Crystal .NET – Oct 25 2003

 

Business Views

Combining Web Services and SQL Server Data Utilizing Business Objects Business View Manager - Part 1 – Dec 11 2006

Combining Web Services and SQL Server Data Utilizing Business Objects Business View
Manager - Part 2 – Dec 12 2006

 

Application Deployment

Crystal Reports Merge Modules (Crystal Blog) – May 10 2004

Automatically Printing Crystal Reports in ASP.NET – Sep 1 2004

Interview with Todd Error: Manager of Business Objects, Diamond Site for Developers
Summary of Recommended Report Binding Scenarios – Sep 29 2006

 

 

Specific Issues

Report Object not showing data in CR.Net web application on 2nd page – June 3 2004

The Request could not be submitted for background processing – Oct 26 2005

Programmatically Logging onto Crystal Subreports – Oct 30 2003

Dissecting the "Logon Failed" Error in Crystal Reports .NET – Sep 20 2004

Troubleshooting Login Errors using Crystal Reports with .NET – Jul 23 2004


Exporting to Excel in Crystal Reports .NET - Perfect Excel Exports – Jun 22 2004

Crystal Reports PUSH method using ASP.NET – Mar 22 2003

Displaying Crystal Reports using WinForms and C# - Jun 1 2007

 

Crystal Reports and other Environments

Creating a Project Velocity Crystal Report using Microsoft Project Server – Jul 17 2006
Creating a SharePoint Lists Report Using Crystal Reports with Web Services – Aug 22 2006
Creating a Task Summary Crystal Report from Microsoft Project Server – Jun 7 2006
Deploying Crystal Report Intranet Web Application Using MSBuild – Mar 2 2006

Creating a Unique Story report with TFS and Crystal Reports – May 17 2007
Creating Agile Project Reports with TFS and Crystal Reports - Part 1 – Feb 12 2007

Creating Agile Project Reports with TFS and Crystal Reports - Part 2 – Feb 20 2007
Creating Agile Project Reports with TFS and Crystal Reports - Part 3 – Apr 24 2007