Summary

There are lots of things you can do to spice up the look of a application. You can always learn a little more about the base controls' properties, and discover things they can do that you didn't see before. You can use colors and graphics to unleash the hidden artist within. And you can combine controls to build components that are more than the sum of their parts . I hope this chapter has given you some useful ideas, and some inspiration to experiment.

In the next chapter, we'll look at reporting, the heart of many database applications. If you thought that reporting was easy in FoxPro and hard in Crystal Reports, which is .NET's reporting tool, you might be basing your opinion on outdated information. Let's see if an update improves your attitude toward reporting with Crystal Reports.