March 2004 - Posts

• Crystal Namespaces

  Namespaces Crystal Reports provides the following namespaces: CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine Namespace Provides support for the ReportDocument object model. CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.ViewerObjectModel NameSpace Provides support for the CrystalReportViewer Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 31, 2004 9:22 AM by crystal | 0 Comments

• Keycodes

  Here's the keycode topic from the below documentation just to give you an idea: Crystal Reports Registration and Keycode When you create reports using Crystal Reports full version or Crystal Reports for Visual Studio, you need to have a keycode. The keycode Read More... Posted Monday, March 29, 2004 5:02 PM by crystal | 6 Comments

• Link for accompanying sample code

  for the documentation I just noted below, there are also sample code that goes with it. That link is http://support.businessobjects.com/communityCS/TechnicalPapers/cr_net_sdk_additional_en.zip.asp Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | Read More... Posted Monday, March 29, 2004 4:59 PM by crystal | 0 Comments

• Documentation on Top Issues and Trouble areas with Crystal reports .NET

  We just released a new set of documentation on the support site with a lot of great conceptual content on object models for example and tutorials and sample code. The link to the documentation is at: http://support.businessobjects.com/communityCS/TechnicalPapers/cr_net_sdk_additional_en.zip.asp Read More... Posted Monday, March 29, 2004 4:57 PM by crystal | 0 Comments

• Thoughts on BillG's Keynote at VSLive 2004 San Francisco

  This was my first attendence of VSLive, so I had no idea what to expect. I made sure to get up nice and early to catch all of Bill's wisdom in his keynote. I took notes on my blackberry and here they are: BillG: I loved the video Great Moments at Work, Read More... Posted Monday, March 29, 2004 4:41 PM by crystal | 0 Comments

• JDBC Calls

  Want to know if the jdbc driver you have work with the crystal products? Below is a list of all the jdbc calls we use. Here are JDBC calls used in crdb_jdbc: java.sql.Blob.getBytes(long pos, int length) java.sql.Blob.length() java.sql.CallableStatement.getObject(int Read More... Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 3:44 PM by crystal | 0 Comments

• Query Builder Registry Settings

  Query Builder Registry Settings. These are the registry settings of querybuilder. The numbers in brackets are the corresponding strings: Software\Crystal Decisions\9.0\Crystal Reports\Database\QueryBuilder\JoinBuilder: SQLServerJoinBuilder(201) : List Read More... Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 3:42 PM by crystal | 2 Comments

• Database Registry Settings

  Database Registry Settings Overview Basic Mechanism We store customizable properties in the resource string, which serve as the default values. This is because a large number of customers refuse to have registry modifications made to all their computers. Read More... Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 3:40 PM by crystal | 11 Comments

• Create an OLE DB data provider

  Create an OLE DB data provider There are two ways to create an OLE DB provider with VC++ Using OLE DB Simple Provider Toolkit (OSP) Using the OLE DB Provider Templates Using OLE DB Simple Provider Toolkit (OSP) Advantage: Easy and fast to create a provider Read More... Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 2:57 PM by crystal | 0 Comments

• Including a picture at runtime in a Report (.NET)

  By default the data (i.e. binary) of picture object is not retrieved from RAS for performance reason. You will have to pass in the option "ReportClientDocumentRetrievePictureImage" when open the document in order to get the binary data. e.g. in VB clientDocument.open Read More... Posted Friday, March 12, 2004 12:30 PM by crystal | 0 Comments

• Welcome

  Welcome to the Crystal Alliance Blogs. This is our first blog ever, woohoo!! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Sponsor Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 09, 2004 7:01 PM by crystal | 1 Comments