Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET Feature Set

The features provided by Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET significantly reduce the amount of labor and effort required for data representation in custom .NET applications. These features include

  • Business Intelligence Web Services Gives Visual Studio .NET developers the power to publish Crystal Reports as Business Intelligence Web Services, with just one mouse click.

  • Integrated Report Designer Makes report creation and integration, in any programming language and project type that works with Visual Studio .NET, a Rapid Application Development (RAD) experience with presentation-quality results.

  • WebForms and WINForms Viewer Controls Gives Visual Studio .NET developers C# (pronounced "C-sharp") technology to integrate and view reports, and Business Intelligence Web Services, in any project type with a simple drag-and-drop from the development toolbar.

  • Run Time Object Model This native Visual Studio .NET object model provides runtime customization of reports the ability to resize and reposition objects, as well as pass report parameters and logon credentials.

  • ADO.NET Data Set Support Developers can instantiate ADO.NET data sets at runtime within their application and programmatically set this data set as the source for a Crystal Report file.

  • Crystal Enterprise SOAP Connector Designed to speed report integration, the Crystal Enterprise SOAP Connector allows you to extract managed reports from Crystal Enterprise to use in your .NET applications. For more information on Crystal Enterprise, refer to the Crystal Decisions web site at http://www.crystaldecisions.com/products/crystalenterprise/default.asp.

The preceding features are available for any .NET development language. Thus, Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET provides developers with increased productivity there's no need to learn a proprietary language to get results. For example, an accounting firm can use Web services to expose a Crystal Report to its customers over the Web.

Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET can rapidly use existing Crystal Reports with just a click of the mouse leveraging existing assets and report creation knowledge, reducing code, increasing productivity, and saving time. Crystal Reports' powerful report creation and Web capabilities enable developers to experience rapid application development while using any programming language targeting the .NET Framework, as well as carrying forward current development skills without costly and extensive re-training.



Sams Teach Yourself Crystal Reports 9 in 24 Hours
Sams Teach Yourself Crystal Reports 9 in 24 Hours
ISBN: B003D7JUVW
EAN: N/A
Year: 2005
Pages: 230

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