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Crystal Reports Encyclopedia Volume 1: Professional XI Reports

Posted Friday, September 14, 2007 12:11 AM by rjdudley
Hot off the presses and into my hands comes Brian Bischof's Crystal Reports Encyclopedia Volume 1: Professional XI Reports . Brian's first book was an invaluable help in my work with Crystal Reports .NET, and this book looks to be just as good. Read More...
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Column Settings Not Working When Exporting From Crystal Reports To Excel

Posted Tuesday, April 04, 2006 12:45 PM by rjdudley
I received an e-mail in regards to my article Exporting to Excel in Crystal Reports .NET - Perfect Excel Exports : I have crystal reports that are displayed in PDF or Excel format from an ASP.NET application. The reports are displaying, my only problem Read More...
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Crystal Reports .NET: Setting Paper Orientation Programmatically

Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2006 4:58 PM by rjdudley
This is a question I see very often, and you can set the paper orientation in code-behind as such: ReportDocument.PrintOptions.PaperOrientation = CrystalDecisions.[Shared].PaperOrientation.Landscape Crystal Reports .NET Programming If you're new to Crystal Read More...
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Crystal Reports Error: Server Application Unavailable

Posted Wednesday, December 21, 2005 3:40 PM by rjdudley
"Server Application Unavailable The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is currently unavailable. Please hit the "Refresh" button in your web browser to retry your request. Administrator Note: An error message detailing the Read More...
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Crystal Reports Pop-ups and XP SP2

Posted Thursday, December 15, 2005 9:08 AM by rjdudley
If you haven't read the article " CodeSnip: Opening Crystal Reports in a New Window in ASP.NET " ( http://aspalliance.com/525 ), do that before you read this. I received this comment recently: When I tried this, it was blocked by Windows XP SP2. When Read More...
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Business Objects Launches Crystal Xcelsius

Posted Thursday, November 17, 2005 3:09 PM by rjdudley
Like I don't have enough new things to play with already... Crystal Xcelsius is the award-winning data visualization software that lets you display complex Excel spreadsheet data as interactive and visually stunning executive summaries, scorecards, forecast Read More...
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Crystal Reports .NET Error - "The request could not be submitted for background processing."

Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2005 8:53 PM by rjdudley
There are several causes for this message, you should read all the information before trying any one of these solutions. 1) This is a known issue in some versions of Crystal Reports, and there is a hot fix at http://support.businessobjects.com/library/kbase/articles/c2012318.asp Read More...
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Windows XP SP2 Users Can't Open Crystal Reports Exported To PDF or Excel

Posted Friday, August 12, 2005 7:42 PM by rjdudley
I have a web forms application based on Crystal Reports .NET 2003, and one of the options I present users is the choice between HTML output (using CrystalReportViewer), or export to PDF or XLS. All the reports from this application open in a new window Read More...
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Lose Your Crystal Reports .NET Field Explorer?

Posted Tuesday, August 09, 2005 2:55 PM by rjdudley
That window in the Crystal Reports .NET designer that shows the database fields, formula fields, etc. is called the “Field Explorer”, unless you need to reopen it. If you need to reopen the Field Explorer, navigate View >> Other Windows >> Read More...
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"How do you know how big to make a field in Crystal Reports?"

Posted Thursday, July 21, 2005 7:58 PM by rjdudley
Laying out a Crystal Report can be stressful, especially when you're guessing at how wide to make a field so string data fits. The problem is, string database fields (such as nvarchar) are measured in characters, but text felds are measured in inches Read More...
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Updating Crystal Reports .NET if You Change the XSD

Posted Friday, May 27, 2005 7:06 PM by rjdudley
One method of creating Crystal Reports is to use an ADO.NET Dataset (for good advice please read Reporting Off ADO.NET Datasets ). To create the report from a dataset, you have to model the dataset in an XML Schema Document, which has the .XSD extension. Read More...
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SQL Server Reporting Services and Crystal Reports: A Competitive Analysis

Posted Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:46 PM by rjdudley
Brian Bischof , author of Crystal Reports .NET Programming , has posted a comparison of SQL Server Reporting Services and Crystal Reports : During 2004, Microsoft grabbed the attention of the Visual Studio .NET community by announcing a new reporting Read More...
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Open PDF Outside of Browser

Posted Thursday, May 26, 2005 3:26 PM by rjdudley
This question has passed my threshold of answering as forum posts, so it's going on the blog: Does anyone know how to export a crystal report into a seperate adobe reader instead of embedding the reader into the current browser window? I am successful Read More...
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Where To Place Example Code for Article 525

Posted Monday, May 23, 2005 10:02 AM by rjdudley
The following question came via private comment in response to CodeSnip: Opening Crystal Reports in a New Window in ASP.NET : Reading your article as a newbie, could you provide me with a little more info of where to place this script. Also I am programming Read More...
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Set Number Of Copies When Automatically Printing Crystal Reports .NET

Posted Sunday, May 22, 2005 12:40 PM by rjdudley
These questions were received as a private comment in response to my Automatically Printing Crystal Reports in ASP.NET article: Very useful and interesting article. Thanks a lot. I wanted to use this in a .Net app. Can we determine the number of copies Read More...
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