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Summary: A step in the right direction for Wrox
Review: After having gotten pretty fed up with the increasingly sloppy work coming out of Wrox, I was pleasantly surprised by this title.
It's currently the only thing out there written specifically for CR.NET. At 325 pages (appendices and index included), it's length is appropriate for its subject (which, more than anything, is what I mean by "a step in the right direction"). It is well organized, written and edited, and I found it quite helpful in meeting an important deadline. I highly recommend this title and hope it portends an overall improvement in future products from Wrox.
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Summary: the missing manual!
Review: after struggling with previous versions of Crystal and VB, I didn't expect too much out of .net but was pleasantly surprise. The tool itself still is playing catch up to the regular version of Crystal but is miles ahead of previous versions. Like most of big Bill's products, the manuals were scarce in .net and the documentation on Crystal is sad. I had bought the complete reference and it was thin on developer topics, so I was happy to find this book and it provides excellent coverage on report integration, but why didn't Crystal do this themselves?!? once again WROX has the best.
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Summary: The Complete Reference
Review: I am an old VB developer trying to make the transition to .NET. I bought the other crystal book (which is a back breaker) and found only a few pages of .Net. I picked this book up after having a read in the store and it fits the bill. I reccomend it.
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Summary: Is this a really profesional?
Review: I am developing VB.NET application and this applications needs to print out several reports and I have found out that one of the reports is very complex. I have heard of how "ease-of-use" is Crystal Report, and I buy this book and try to find out if this book can offer me solutions to build the type of report I want. To my disappointment, it cannot produce the report.
The complex report is like this: I have 3 tables. One is header and the other two are details tables.
The header and the details are linked by a primary and foreign key. Whatever matched in the header primary key, the detail records must be shown. (Left outer join I will say). One of the detail tables must display the record in horizontally and the other detail table must display the record vertically. I know this can be achieve if I use programming to program it, but it time consuming and more effort have to be consumed.
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Summary: Should have included more detail in the web forms chapter
Review: 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
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Summary: Not a learning book
Review: I don't know much at all about Crystal reports, and since I've bought this book, I am still in that category. This is not a book where you learn how Crystal reports works, it mainly for integrating the reports that have been created into a .NET application, either web or windows. I wish it had more basic crystal functionality.
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Summary: Look for another book
Review: I found quite a few mistakes. Does anyone review these books? The "chapter " on Web Services was particularly poor. I suggest looking for any other book on Crystal and .Net.
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Summary: Finally... it happened
Review: 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!
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Summary: Hands Down The Best Crystal Reports.NET Book
Review: 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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Summary: Hands Down The Best Crystal Reports.NET Book
Review: 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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