September 2004 - Posts

• ASP.NET images appear as a red "X"

  Lately I've seen a lot of questions posted stating that when and ASP.NET app is deployed to the webserver that the report icons appear as red “X”s. The BusObj support site lists two KB articles to help you resolve this. In summary, there are Read More... Posted Monday, September 27, 2004 3:18 PM by crystal | 2 Comments

• custom ADO.Net datasets

  Q: I want to use the “push mode“ with custom ADO.Net datasets passed to the report engine. What is the best method to get the data ? Stored procedures or views ? How can I get the fields definition at design time, without creating typed datasets? Read More... Posted Thursday, September 09, 2004 10:37 AM by crystal | 3 Comments

• Filtering out data in a report

  If you want to filter out the data your report returns such as only people whose last name starts with letter A-L, you'll want to use the SelectionFormula for filtering out the data at runtime. The formula editor allows you to create design-time filters. Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 07, 2004 5:11 PM by crystal | 0 Comments

• using csv file as a data source for a report

  I got asked this and will give a really quick answer here: you can use a csv file as the data source in either the version that comes with Visual Studio or the full retail version. You can get to the csv file either using ODBC or DAO, I would recommend Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 07, 2004 5:06 PM by crystal | 0 Comments