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Opening a PDF in a Popup Window In Internet Explorer
02 February 07 06:17 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

Today I was working on a web application where we have a number of Crystal Reports. To date, we were displaying them using the CrystalReportViewer Web control, but virtually all users, we found, were using the reports in the same manner: Click on the...

Filed under: ASP.NET Talk, Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports Tip for the Day: Specifying the Database Name Dynamically
09 March 05 07:09 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

I'm back to doing Crystal Reports for one of my long-term consulting projects... ick. For the project I work on there's two databases: a test database and the live database, the obvious difference being that the test database has test data and the live...

Filed under: Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports Book for .NET
29 October 04 10:41 AM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

Earlier I had blogged about my forays into Crystal Reports , so I ended up getting a copy of Brian Bischof's Crystal Reports .NET Programming book, which is 500+ pages on using Crystal Reports in a .NET environment. I've yet to have a chance to read the...

Filed under: About Writing, Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports Tip for the Day
08 October 04 01:00 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

As I alluded to in a blog post earlier this week , I am embarking on the journey of learning Crystal Reports and integrating them into an ASP.NET site. While I have definitely learned a lot over the past 36 hours or so, it still feels a bit frustrating...

Filed under: Crystal Reports

Binding a Strongly-Typed Collection to a Crystal Report
07 October 04 04:56 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

Prior to today you could count the number of hours I've used Crystal Reports on one hand. Despite that, I'm working on a project now where my client needs to be able to print invoices based on the data collected through a Web application I've already...

Filed under: ASP.NET Talk, Crystal Reports