Lecture-12 Crystal Report

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Modern Programming Language

Lecture-12


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Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET

Agenda Introduction

Making sample crystal reports though differentmethods


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Introduction

Just storing data is not enough: Managers must use

these data to make informed business decisions.Information must be properly organized, easilyaccessible and shared among various individuals,departments and affiliates.

To make this possible, developers have createdreporting softwarea key tool enabling thepresentation of stored data sources.

Crystal Reports was first released in 1992 as aWindows-based report writer, and Microsoft adoptedthe reporting software as the standard for VisualBasic in 1993. VisualStudio .NET integrates aspecial edition of Crystal Reports, further tying

Crystal Reports to Windows and Web development.


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Crystal Reports and Visual Studio .NET

Developers working in Visual Studio .NETs Integrated

Development Environment (IDE) can create andintegrate reports in their applications using CrystalReports software. The Visual Studio .NET edition ofthe software provides powerful capabilities todevelopers.

A user can convert a report to Microsoft Word,Adobes Portable Document Format (PDF), HypertextMarkup Language (HTML) and others so that reportinformation can be distributed easily and used in a

wide variety of documentation.

Any Crystal Report created in Visual Studio .NET canbecome an embedded resource for use in Windowsand Web applications and Web services.


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Crystal Report for VS 2010Crystal Report has been dropped from Visual Studio

2010. But don't worry, it is available as a separatedownload from the SAP web site. These are thethings that I found from the internet.

'It turns out that Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010will be released separately, instead of included with

the product and Most importantly, Crystal Reports forVisual Studio 2010 will continue to be free, with noregistration required.

Download Crystal report from this link, or just directly

paste the link below to your address bar and it will askto save an EXE file.

http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_13_0.exe

Install the downloaded file then start working normally.
http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_13_0.exehttp://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_13_0.exehttp://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_13_0.exehttp://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_13_0.exe


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To Bring Crystal Report ViewerControl in Vs 2010

CrystalReportViewer is a control that are used todisplay crystal report to user.

Follow the following steps

Save your project

in Menu - select ProjectWindowsApplications1Properties (go to yourproject properties)

Click on compile tab, find forAdvance CompilerOption.

Change Target framwork (all configurations); to.NET Framework 4

And click ok


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Different types of crystal report

The following two table are needed and one view


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Create Crystal Report from the table

NOTE: If you are facing any problem like Unknown Query

Engine Error you needed to add the attribute bolted belowto my *.config file.

This is Only for .NET Framework 4.0


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Simple Report to display data fromtable


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Code On Button click Dim con As New SqlClient.SqlConnection("Data source=(Local);Initial catalog=Sale;Integrated security=true")

con.Open()

Dim da As New SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter("Select * from Customer", con)

Dim ds As New DataSet

da.Fill(ds,Customer)

Dim rpt As New CrystalReport1

rpt.SetDataSource(ds.Table(Customer))

CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = rpt


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Address vise Customers


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Code for button con = New SqlConnection("Data source=(Local);Initial catalog=Sale;Integrated security=true")

con.Open()

da = New SqlDataAdapter("Select * from Customer where Address='" & Me.TextBox1.Text & "'", con)

ds.Clear()

da.Fill(ds, "Customer")

Dim rpt As New CrystalReport1

rpt.SetDataSource(ds.Tables("customer"))

CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = rpt


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Cover the following topic

Grouping

Section

Page setup

Summary Field

Line

TextBox

Formate Object


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Simple Chart in Crystal Report

Chart is the most important and visible part of the

reporting tool. Crystal has very powerful feature to addchart in report. Let's see how to add chart in CR.

Right click on CR goto Insert select Chart


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Report Inside Report (Sub Report)

Crystal reports provide reports inside report feature

which are normally known as a subreport feature.

Add new report to the solution. Then add Report->Group and select only Customer name because wewant to design report for each customer and sub

report product wise. So there will be only one groupheader inside the Customergroup


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To Insert SubReport

In Group section right click select Inser->SubReport

Select your detail report Name from the list ->OK

Drag to the group section

Right click on subreport find Change subreport Link

Select the field properly,


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Cross Tab Report in Crystal Report


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Questions???

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