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MVP Corner: A Baker’s Dozen of Reflections
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Kevin Goff
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2008 - July/August
July August 2008 MVP Corner by Kevin S. Goff
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The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Comparisons Between Crystal Reports and SQL Server Reporting Services
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Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - November/December
Recent polls show that nearly fifty percent of applications with reporting functionality use Crystal Reports, and about twenty percent use SQL Server Reporting Services. This article will cover some of the major reporting tasks that developers face, and how the two reporting tools (Crystal and SQL Server Reporting Services) handle the tasks. Finally, I’ll provide a sneak preview at the next scheduled releases of both products (the next version of Crystal Reports and SQL Server Reporting Services 2008).
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The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Productivity Tips for Crystal Reports Redux
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Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - January/February
This article presents a follow-up to my January/February 2005 article, The Baker's Dozen: 13 Productivity Tips for Crystal Reports and .NET, where I presented productivity tips for developers who use Crystal Reports for .NET. In this sequel article, Crystal Reports Redux, I’ll offer some changes to the original article and will present some new material for Crystal Reports development. While I’ll focus on the version of Crystal Reports that ships with Visual Studio 2005 Professional, I’ll mention some of the capabilities found in the latest version, Crystal Reports XI.
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The Baker's Dozen: 13 Productivity Tips for Crystal Reports and .NET
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Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2005 - January/February
I'll show you how to build tools to address common reporting requirements for your business using Crystal Reports with .NET.I'll also show you how you can use graphics and multiple levels of detail to summarize large amounts of information and efficiently present it to business users and decision makers. Users of your company data will be the first to determine that an otherwise quality software solution is incomplete if it fails to present data in a way they can easily interpret. Although Crystal Reports provides many outstanding capabilities to help build and deliver sophisticated presentation output, I'll present a proven collection of reusable practices and methodologies that you can apply across most reporting projects to add that extra sparkle to your solutions.
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Introduction to Crystal Reports .NET
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Dan Jurden
Last updated: Friday, December 5, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2002 - July/August
In this article, Dan Jurden introduces Crystal Reports .NET as an integrated reporting tool within Visual Studio .NET, emphasizing its powerful features for creating, customizing, and viewing interactive reports in both Windows and Web applications. He demonstrates how to design reports using various data sources including ADO.NET datasets, how to add grouping, filtering, and conditional formatting, and how to publish and consume reports as Web services. Dan highlights the flexibility offered by the Crystal Reports .NET object model and viewer components, providing developers with efficient ways to deliver scalable, presentation-quality reports.
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