18th August 2009

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Featured Article

In this fourth part of the series, Vince Varallo examines the creation of an employee report and demonstrates the usage of Crystal Reports object model to change the grouping fields and manipulate the properties of the group at runtime to show or hide sections, reset the page number, or insert a page break using Visual Studio 2008. He provides a step-by-step analysis of each procedure with the help of relevant screen shots and source code.

http://aspalliance.com/1874_Building_Reports_Using_ASPNET_and_Crystal_Reports__Part_4_Dynamic_Grouping

Editor's Comments

Today the SQL Azure team released their first public community tech preview (CTP). You can read more at the official announcement, or download it here. More info from the announcement:

The SQL Azure Database CTP includes:

• Relational data model supporting Transact-SQL (T-SQL), including T-SQL stored procedures. Access SQL Azure with familiar data access APIs such as ODBC, OLE DB, ADO.Net, PHP, etc. The high degree of compatibility with SQL Server enables easy migration of existing Line of Business (LOB) or Web applications to the cloud.
• Self-provisioning, auto-healing and disaster recovery, with high availability and no physical database administration. Self service provisioning means you can provision any number of databases and not have to worry about machines, disks, or server configuration.
• Pay-as-you-grow multi-tenant scalable service model.
• Efficiencies from an enterprise class data center without the administrative overhead.
• Support for familiar tools so developers can leverage existing skills to speed time to solution

Also, on a different note, our featured article this week is the fourth in a series that teaches how to implement some commonly requested reporting features. Throughout the series, we have shown how to build an invoice application, generate a quarterly sales report, generate an invoice report with disconnected data, and today how to change a report’s grouping without creating a new report file. View these and several other articles that teach how to use Crystal reports here.

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In this fourth part of the series, Vince Varallo examines the creation of an employee report and demonstrates the usage of Crystal Reports object model to change the grouping fields and manipulate the properties of the group at runtime to show or hide sections, reset the page number, or insert a page break using Visual Studio 2008. He provides a step-by-step analysis of each procedure with the help of relevant screen shots and source code.

In this third part of the series, Varallo shows how to rebuild the Invoice created in Part 1 using disconnected datasets instead of connecting directly to the database. This gives the user the flexibility to manipulate the data and implement rules in a c# business class rather than in the report. He provides a detailed overview of each concept in a step-by-step manner supported with screen shots and source code.

We have come across a situation where we have to generate the report from more then 2 queries using crystal reports. All queries are different -- 2 transaction tables with relevant joins from dimension tables. So to make the report we have to create 2 different connections from the universe and it eventually gave performance problems when dealing with a large sets of records. In this case, we have to link each query with the others on the basis of common dimensions. While fetching a report with a large amount of data, it takes a lot of time to complete.

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In this second part of the series, Eric shows the reader how to create a burndown chart using Reporting Services, Visual Studio 2008, and Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 for an agile project. After giving a short introduction and the requirements, he examines the creation of burndown reports with the help of relevant SQL statements and screen shots.

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