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Your portal dedicated to providing direction to using Crystal Reports and Crystal Enterprise. Articles, links to community content (newsgroups, listserves etc.), and sample applications links can be found here....

Recent Articles

Six Quick Crystal Reports Design Tips - 26 Feb 2008 - Creating reports can be a daunting task. Reports can demand a great deal of effort and time, especially if you have not worked with Crystal Reports much. In this article, Jeff provides six quick Crystal Reports Design Tips to assist in creating killer reports with style and speed. Among other tips, you will learn how to add WaterMarks to your reports. Each tip has been deeply examined with the help of relevant explanations and screenshots for better understanding.

What Visual Studio Developers Should Know About Crystal Reports 2008 - 27 Jan 2008 - Crystal Reports 2008 was released in October 2007. This article (written in Jan 08) explains the ins and outs of the CR2008 versions, integration with VS versions, side-by-side compatibility, upgrading reports and general features of interest to Visual Studio Developers.

Review: Crystal Reports Encyclopedia (Professional XI Reports) - 26 Dec 2007 - In this review, Eric starts with a basic introduction and layout of Brian's Crystal Reports book. He then provides chapter wise detailed opinion of the contents and also some of his recommendations.

Writing a Viewer Utility for Crystal Reports - 22 Oct 2007 - In this article, you will learn how to write a Windows Forms viewer for reports created in the Crystal Reports end-user program (eg. Crystal Reports XI). The viewer allows users to view the existing reports with fresh data as well as input parameter variables at run time. The utility can be written with Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008.

Using Crystal Viewer to Display your Crystal Reports - 26 Sep 2007 - In this article Eric shows how to use the new Crystal Viewer to help distribute reports.

Report Design

Creating Professional Reports using Crystal Report for Visual Studio.NET (Part 1) – Feb 10 2004
Creating Professional Reports using Crystal Report for Visual Studio.NET (Part 2) – Feb 11 2004
Creating Professional Reports using Crystal Report for Visual Studio.NET (Part 3) – Feb 12 2004
Creating a Crystal Report for Community Server – May 17 2006

Getting Started

Crystal Licensing Information For Web Developers – Mar 24 2005

Overview of Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET – Feb 10 2004
Review: Crystal Xcelsius – Jan 18 2006
Crystal Reports XI & How It's Changed – Apr 16 2005

Crystal Reports .NET 2005 FAQ – Mar 7 2005

Recommended Crystal Reports Resources for .NET – May 31 2005

 

Sample Applications

Sample App: FFAssist Using Crystal .NET for VS 2005 - Part 1 –Feb 1 2005

Sample App: FFAssist Using Crystal .NET for VS 2005 - Part 2 – Feb 8 2005
Sample Application: FFAssist Using Crystal .NET for Visual Studio 2005 - Part 3 –May 18 2005

Application Development

Crystal Reports

Decrypting Data in Crystal Reports –Dec 28 2003

Create Crystal Reports on the Fly using ASP.NET – May 3 2005
Creating Dynamic DataSets for Crystal Reports in ASP.NET 2.0 – Feb 28 2006
Automagically displaying a Crystal Reports Parameters - Part 1 – May 7 2004
Automagically displaying a Crystal Reports Parameters - Part II – May 17 2004
Automagically displaying a Crystal Reports Parameters - Part III – May 26 2004
Crystal .Net Stored Procedures with Datasets – Sep 21 2003
Dynamically Embed image Files into Crystal Reports – Nov 22 2005
Opening Crystal Reports in a New Window in ASP.NET – Sep 15 2004

Creating a DotNetNuke Private Assembly with Crystal Reports - Part 1 – Oct 27 2005
Creating a DotNetNuke Private Assembly with Crystal Reports - Part 2 – Nov 15 2005
Creating a DotNetNuke Private Assembly with Crystal Reports - Part 3 – Jan 6 2006
Creating a DotNetNuke Private Assembly with Crystal Reports - Part 4 – Jan 16 2006

 

Test Driven Development for a Business Intelligence Project with Crystal Reports – Jul 5 2005

Test Driven Development for a Business Intelligence Project (Crystal Reports): Part 2 – Aug 15 2005
Test Driven Development for a Business Intelligence Project with Crystal Reports: Part 3 – Aug 29 2005

Crystal Reports PUSH method using ASP.NET – Mar 22 2003

 

Crystal .Net Tips – Oct 30 2003

Setting Parameters for Crystal .Net – Aug 2002



BusinessObjects Enterprise

Automating Reports with diverse data sources using Business Objects Enterprise Server - Part 1 – Apr 10 2006

Utilizing Business Objects Enterprise Server for Report Automation – Nov 7 2006
Changing Values in a formula Field in Crystal .NET – Oct 25 2003

 

Business Views

Combining Web Services and SQL Server Data Utilizing Business Objects Business View Manager - Part 1 – Dec 11 2006

Combining Web Services and SQL Server Data Utilizing Business Objects Business View
Manager - Part 2 – Dec 12 2006

 

Application Deployment

Crystal Reports Merge Modules (Crystal Blog) – May 10 2004

Crystal.Net deployment – dead link, please remove
Deploying Web Applications with CR for VS.NET – no content

Automatically Printing Crystal Reports in ASP.NET – Sep 1 2004

Interview with Todd Error: Manager of Business Objects, Diamond Site for Developers
Summary of Recommended Report Binding Scenarios – Sep 29 2006

 

 

Specific Issues

Report Object not showing data in CR.Net web application on 2nd page – June 3 2004

The Request could not be submitted for background processing – Oct 26 2005

Programmatically Logging onto Crystal Subreports – Oct 30 2003

Dissecting the "Logon Failed" Error in Crystal Reports .NET – Sep 20 2004

Troubleshooting Login Errors using Crystal Reports with .NET – Jul 23 2004


Exporting to Excel in Crystal Reports .NET - Perfect Excel Exports – Jun 22 2004

Crystal Reports PUSH method using ASP.NET – Mar 22 2003

Displaying Crystal Reports using WinForms and C# - Jun 1 2007

 

Crystal Reports and other Environments

Creating a Project Velocity Crystal Report using Microsoft Project Server – Jul 17 2006
Creating a SharePoint Lists Report Using Crystal Reports with Web Services – Aug 22 2006
Creating a Task Summary Crystal Report from Microsoft Project Server – Jun 7 2006
Deploying Crystal Report Intranet Web Application Using MSBuild – Mar 2 2006

Creating a Unique Story report with TFS and Crystal Reports – May 17 2007
Creating Agile Project Reports with TFS and Crystal Reports - Part 1 – Feb 12 2007

Creating Agile Project Reports with TFS and Crystal Reports - Part 2 – Feb 20 2007
Creating Agile Project Reports with TFS and Crystal Reports - Part 3 – Apr 24 2007