Workshop

The quiz questions and activities are provided for your further understanding of the current hour's topics.

Quiz

1:	What are the three application development scenarios Crystal Reports 9 is targeted toward?
A1:	Crystal Reports 9 is targeting toward three scenarios: Desktop Application, Simple Web Applications, and Advanced Web Applications.
2:	What are the three components that compose the Report Designer Component?
A2:	The three components that compose the Report Designer Component are the Visual Basic Report Designer, the Object Model, and the ActiveX Report Viewer.
3:	What development platforms is Crystal Reports 9 targeting for Web applications?
A3:	For Web-based applications, Crystal Reports 9 is targeting the COM (ASP), .NET (ASP.NET), and Java (JSP) development platforms.

Activities

To ensure that you are comfortable with the topics discussed in this hour, try to perform the following tasks:

• Build a Visual Basic application that prompts the business user with an InputBox for the name of the country he would like to see data for. Then display a report based on the Xtreme Sample Database's Customer table in the ActiveX report viewer.

• Build a simple .NET Application that displays one of the Crystal Reports 9 sample reports on the Web in HTML format.

• Create a Java application that creates a report on-the-fly based on one of the sample reports' data sources and adds three fields, then display that report in the Java Interactive Report Viewer.