Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports

The simplest way to learn Crystal Reports and Visual Studio is to follow the hands-on exercises in this tutorial. In no time you'll be producing stunning charts and be able to create a reporting application from scratch.

Overview

• A step-by-step guide that goes beyond theory, letting you get hand-on experience
• Utilize a dataset and table adapter as data sources for your report
• Learn how to add reports to forms and pass parameters dynamically

In Detail

Reports are documents that present focused, salient content to a specific audience. Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application that will help you design and generate reports from a wide range of data sources. It helps you summarize a good deal of information in a visually appealing manner.

"Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports" is a practical, hands-on guide that will provide you with a number of clear, step-by-step exercises, and help you take advantage of the real power of Crystal Reports. This book will not only help you create effective reports, but also teach you how to create a reporting application.

"Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports" will guide you through the installation of Crystal Reports and Visual Studio. As you progress from one chapter to the next, you will gradually build a reporting application. You will also learn how to select the right data, and enhance your report by grouping and sorting data. This book will also help you create chart reports to improve your report design. With this book, you will learn how to create a complete reporting application and a wide variety of reports.

What you will learn from this book

• Set up Microsoft Visual Studio, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft SQL server
• Create a new reporting application
• Design the application GUI
• Connect to a database and use a dataset and table adapter
• Add Crystal Reports to the application
• Add database fields to the report and format them
• Group and sort report data using parameter fields and special fields

Approach

A fast-paced, example-based guide to learn how to create a reporting application using Visual Studio and Crystal Reports.

Who this book is written for

"Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports" is for developers new to Crystal Reports. It will also prove useful to intermediate users who wish to explore some new techniques in Crystal Reports using Microsoft Visual Studio. Readers are expected to have basic knowledge of C#, Microsoft Visual Studio, and Structured Query Language (SQL).

學習Crystal Reports和Visual Studio的最簡單方法是按照本教程中的實作練習進行。很快，您就能製作出令人驚艷的圖表，並能從頭開始創建報表應用程式。

概述
- 一個逐步指南，超越理論，讓您獲得實踐經驗
- 使用資料集和表適配器作為報表的資料來源
- 學習如何將報表添加到表單並動態傳遞參數

詳細內容
報表是向特定受眾呈現專注、重要內容的文件。Crystal Reports是一個商業智能應用程式，可幫助您從各種資料來源設計和生成報表。它可以以視覺上吸引人的方式總結大量資訊。

《使用Visual Studio和Crystal Reports進行報表》是一本實用的實作指南，提供了一系列清晰、逐步的練習，幫助您充分利用Crystal Reports的真正威力。本書不僅將幫助您創建有效的報表，還將教您如何創建報表應用程式。

《使用Visual Studio和Crystal Reports進行報表》將引導您安裝Crystal Reports和Visual Studio。隨著您從一章到下一章的進展，您將逐步建立一個報表應用程式。您還將學習如何選擇正確的資料，並通過分組和排序資料來增強報表。本書還將幫助您創建圖表報表，以改善報表設計。通過本書，您將學習如何創建完整的報表應用程式和各種報表。

本書將教您以下內容：
- 設置Microsoft Visual Studio、Crystal Reports和Microsoft SQL Server
- 創建新的報表應用程式
- 設計應用程式的圖形用戶界面
- 連接到資料庫並使用資料集和表適配器
- 將Crystal Reports添加到應用程式
- 將資料庫欄位添加到報表並格式化它們
- 使用參數欄位和特殊欄位對報表資料進行分組和排序

方法
這是一本快節奏、以實例為基礎的指南，教您如何使用Visual Studio和Crystal Reports創建報表應用程式。

本書適合對Crystal Reports新手的開發人員。對於希望使用Microsoft Visual Studio探索一些新技術的中級用戶，本書也會很有用。讀者需要具備C#、Microsoft Visual Studio和結構化查詢語言（SQL）的基本知識。