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		<title>Crystal Report 2010 Hosting :: Create a Report Using Crystal Report in Visual Studio 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 04:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Einar Visockas</dc:creator>
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<p>Create a web site in VS 2010 as in the following:</p>
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<p>Then we will create a DataSet. For this, right click on the project name in Solution Explorer and click Add New Item. The Add New Item Dialog will open. Select DataSet from the list of items. Give it&#8217;s name as per your choice and click Add.</p>
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<p>Create a web site in VS 2010 as in the following:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/image_1.jpg"><img src="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/image_1.jpg" alt="" title="image_1" width="450" height="252" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-324" /></a></p>
<p>Then we will create a DataSet. For this, right click on the project name in Solution Explorer and click Add New Item. The Add New Item Dialog will open. Select DataSet from the list of items. Give it&#8217;s name as per your choice and click Add.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/image_2.jpg"><img src="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/image_2.jpg" alt="" title="image_2" width="650" height="368" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-325" /></a></p>
<p>Now we will add the table to the DataSet. On the Server Explorer right click Data Connections and then click Add Connection.</p>
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<p>Enter your server name and select the Database.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/image_4.jpg"><img src="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/image_4.jpg" alt="" title="image_4" width="451" height="658" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-327" /></a></p>
<p>After that drag a table to the DataSet designer and save it.</p>
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<p>Now right click on the project in Solution Explorer and select Add New Item. Select Crystal Report from the list and add it as CustomerReport.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/image_6.jpg"><img src="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/image_6.jpg" alt="" title="image_6" width="650" height="368" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-329" /></a></p>
<p>The Crystal Report Gallery will open. Select Blank Report and click OK.</p>
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<p>Now in the field explorer window right click on Database Fields and click Database Expert.</p>
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<p>Click the plus sign of Project Data, then ADO.NET DataSets. Select Customers under Customer. Click the add (&gt;) button to add the table to our report and click OK.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/image_9.jpg"><img src="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/image_9.jpg" alt="" title="image_9" width="585" height="510" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-332" /></a></p>
<p>You will get all the fields of the Customers table under the Customers option under Database Fields in Field Explorer. Drag and drop the required fields in the Section 3 (Details) part of the report and save it.</p>
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<p>Finally drag CrystalReportViewer control from the Reporting section of the Toolbox to our webpage.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/image_11.jpg"><img src="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/image_11.jpg" alt="" title="image_11" width="650" height="91" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-334" /></a></p>
<p>Now go to the code behind page and write the following code in the Page_Load event.</p>
<pre><span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">using</span><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;"> System;</span>
<span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">using</span><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;"> System.Collections.Generic;</span>
<span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">using</span><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;"> System.Linq;</span>
<span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">using</span><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;"> System.Web;</span>
<span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">using</span><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;"> System.Web.UI;</span>
<span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">using</span><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;"> System.Web.UI.WebControls;</span>
<span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">using</span><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;"> System.Data;</span>
<span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">using</span><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;"> System.Data.SqlClient;</span>
<span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">using</span><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;"> CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine;</span></pre>
<pre><span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">public</span><span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="color: blue;">partial</span> <span style="color: blue;">class</span> <span style="color: #2b91af;">_Default</span> : System.Web.UI.<span style="color: #2b91af;">Page</span> </span>
<span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">{</span>
<span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">    <span style="color: blue;">protected</span> <span style="color: blue;">void</span> Page_Load(<span style="color: blue;">object</span> sender, <span style="color: #2b91af;">EventArgs</span> e)</span>
<span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">    {</span>
<span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">        <span style="color: #2b91af;">SqlConnection</span> connection = <span style="color: blue;">new</span> <span style="color: #2b91af;">SqlConnection</span>(<span style="color: #a31515;">"Server=myserver;uid=sa;pwd=nothing;Database=MyDB;"</span>);</span>
<span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">        <span style="color: #2b91af;">SqlCommand</span> command = <span style="color: blue;">new</span> <span style="color: #2b91af;">SqlCommand</span>(<span style="color: #a31515;">"Select top 10 * From Customers"</span>, connection);</span>
<span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">        <span style="color: #2b91af;">SqlDataAdapter</span> adapter = <span style="color: blue;">new</span> <span style="color: #2b91af;">SqlDataAdapter</span>(command);</span>
<span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">        <span style="color: green;">//Customer _Customer = new Customer();</span></span>
<span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">        <span style="color: #2b91af;">DataSet</span> dataset = <span style="color: blue;">new</span> <span style="color: #2b91af;">DataSet</span>();</span>
<span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">        adapter.Fill(dataset, <span style="color: #a31515;">"Customer"</span>);</span>
<span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">        <span style="color: #2b91af;">ReportDocument</span> CustomerReport = <span style="color: blue;">new</span> <span style="color: #2b91af;">ReportDocument</span>();</span>
<span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">        CustomerReport.Load(Server.MapPath(<span style="color: #a31515;">"CustomerReport.rpt"</span>));</span>
<span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">        CustomerReport.SetDataSource(dataset.Tables[<span style="color: #a31515;">"Customer"</span>]);</span>
<span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">        CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = CustomerReport;</span>
<span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">        CrystalReportViewer1.DataBind();</span>
<span style="font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">    }</span>
<span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: &amp;amp;amp; font-size: 10pt;">}</span></pre>
<p>Now it&#8217;s done. Press F5; you will get the report.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 04:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Einar Visockas</dc:creator>
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<p>In this post i am explaining how to pass parameters to crystal reports programmatically in code behind of asp.net web page.</p>
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<p>For this example i am using northwind database and products table.</p>
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<p>In this post i am explaining how to pass parameters to crystal reports programmatically in code behind of asp.net web page.</p>
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<p>For this example i am using northwind database and products table.</p>
<p>I have put one text box on the page and report will display details of product based on product id entered by user.</p>
<p>Open crystal report in design view, right click on it and select <strong>Field Explorer</strong></p>
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<p>Now select <strong>Parameter Fields</strong> and <strong>select new</strong> to add new parameter to report.</p>
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<p>Name it as <strong>ProductID</strong> and remember it.</p>
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<p>Now click on <strong>Special Fields</strong> in Field Explorer and <strong>select Record Selection Formula</strong>.</p>
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<p>Select <strong>is equal to</strong> and <strong>{?ProductID}</strong> from the dropdowns and click on OK.</p>
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<p>Click on <strong>smart tag of reportviewer</strong> control and <strong>uncheck Database</strong> logon prompting and <strong>parameter prompting</strong> as we will provide these info in code behind.</p>
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<p><strong>HTML markup of aspx page</strong></p>
<p><code>&lt;form runat="server"&gt;<br />
                   &lt;table class="style1"&gt;<br />
                            &lt;tr&gt;<br />
&lt;td&gt;<br />
Enter Product ID :<br />
&lt;/td&gt;<br />
&lt;td&gt;<br />
&lt;asp:TextBox runat="server"&gt;<br />
&lt;/asp:TextBox&gt;<br />
&lt;/td&gt;<br />
&lt;td&gt;<br />
&lt;asp:Button ID="btnReport" runat="server"<br />
Text="Show Report"<br />
onclick="btnReport_Click"<br />
Width="108px" /&gt;<br />
&lt;/td&gt;<br />
&lt;/tr&gt;<br />
&lt;/table&gt;<br />
&lt;br /&gt;<br />
&lt;CR:CrystalReportViewer ID="CrystalReportViewer1" runat="server"<br />
AutoDataBind="True" EnableDatabaseLogonPrompt="False"<br />
EnableParameterPrompt="False" Height="1039px"<br />
ReportSourceID="CrystalReportSource1"<br />
ReuseParameterValuesOnRefresh="True"<br />
Width="901px" DisplayGroupTree="False" /&gt;<br />
&lt;CR:CrystalReportSource ID="CrystalReportSource1" runat="server"&gt;<br />
&lt;Report FileName="CrystalReport.rpt"&gt;<br />
&lt;/Report&gt;<br />
&lt;/CR:CrystalReportSource&gt;<br />
&lt;/form&gt;</code></p>
<p>Now go to code behind of the page and <strong>add</strong> below mentioned <strong>namespace for crystal reports</strong>.</p>
<p><code>using CrystalDecisions.Shared;<br />
using CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine;</code></p>
<p>Write this code in <strong>Page_Load event</strong> of the page</p>
<p><code>protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)<br />
{<br />
if (Page.IsPostBack) CrystalReportViewer1.Visible = true;<br />
else<br />
CrystalReportViewer1.Visible = false;<br />
}</code></p>
<p><strong>Generate click event for button</strong> to show report and <strong>write this code</strong>.</p>
<p><code>protected void btnReport_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)<br />
{   //Create report document<br />
ReportDocument crystalReport = new ReportDocument();</p>
<p>//Load crystal report made in design view<br />
crystalReport.Load(Server.MapPath("CrystalReport.rpt"));</p>
<p>//Set DataBase Login Info<br />
crystalReport.SetDatabaseLogon<br />
("amitjain", "password", @"AMITJAIN\SQL", "Northwind");</p>
<p>//Provide parameter values<br />
crystalReport.SetParameterValue("ProductID", txtProductID.Text);<br />
CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = crystalReport;<br />
}</code></p>
<p>Build the solution and run.</p>
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<p>Crystal Report has been a partner of developer in creating a professional reporting since the early versions of Visual Studio.Microsoft proves that they have the speed on creating and updating their products, although Business Objects tried to follows the abrupt products updates of Microsoft still they left behind the race. In fairness with the <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/index.php/archives/307">Crystal Report 2010 Hosting :: How to use Crystal Report 2010 in VS2010</a></span>]]></description>
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<p>Crystal Report has been a partner of developer in creating a professional reporting since the early versions of Visual Studio.Microsoft proves that they have the speed on creating and updating their products, although Business Objects tried to follows the abrupt products updates of Microsoft still they left behind the race. In fairness with the Business Objects, they have also a quality products that most programmer depends on.</p>
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<p><strong>Crystal Reports 2010 in Visual Studio 2010?</strong></p>
<p>The questions “<strong><em>Is CR2010 beta can be use in Visual Studio 2010?</em></strong>” the answer is <strong>YES</strong>, of course, even though CR is still on its beta version (<em>Free to download and will remain free as the Business Objects representative </em>Cheers, Blair said.) we will be able to use it in VS2010 but need for some settings to be set in order that this products will be able to use. Based on my experience I am going to show you how I did it just consider for some procedures to follow.</p>
<ol>
<li>Download the CR2010 beta 2 from Business Object      Website.</li>
<li><a title="Crystal Report Beta 2" href="http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/cr4vs2010.exe" target="_blank">Crystal      Reports for Visual Studio 2010</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforNET40_x86.exe" target="_blank">Crystal Reports Runtime engine      for .net framework 4.0 (32 bit)</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforNET40_x64.exe" target="_blank">Crystal Reports Runtime engine      for .net framework 4.0 (64 bit)</a>.</li>
<li>You are going to need these two installer the CR2010      for VS2010 and the Crystal Report Runtime Engine.</li>
<li>Any previous installed crystal report should uninstall      first before installing the new release.</li>
</ol>
<p>Now install Crystal Reports For Visual Studio 2010 on your developer machine and as well as Runtime Engine. Create a setup program on your project, on Project Solution Explorer right click the setup, in the picture below it shows AISCollection and select properties:</p>
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<p>on Properties Dialog box click Prerequisites, to show the prerequisites dialog box as shown below:</p>
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<p>If you cannot see Crystal Report 2010 Runtime, surely it will not appear on your Prerequisites dialog because it was manually created using Bootstrapper Manifest Generator for Visual Studio 2008 you can download the Bootstrapper Manifest Generator <a title="Bootstrap Manfest Generator" href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/bmg/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=1567" target="_blank">HERE</a> to generate a prerequisite installer on your project. The same way with framework2 and Microsoft data Access Component for VS2010 all was created using Bootstrapper Manifest Generator. Crystal Report 2010 beta uses the .net framework 2.0 that’s why you need to include it on your setup. program. As an alternative way if you don’t want to create a prerequisite installer for that, you need to manually install the runtime and the .net framework 2.0 including the Microsoft data Access Component 2.8 on your client machine before all things will work perfectly. The Tutorials on how to use the Bootstrapper Manifest Generator will be available soon, please come back and check it here regularly.</p>
<p><strong>Issue Arising After Installing the new Crystal Report Production Release.</strong></p>
<p>Upon Compiling your projects if you do experience a not found error “<strong><em>crdb_adoplus.dll</em></strong>“, all you have to do are:</p>
<ol>
<li>Go to the folder “<strong><em>C:\Program Files\SAP      BusinessObjects\Crystal Reports for .NET Framework 4.0\Common\SAP      BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\win32_x86</em></strong>” and copy the      crdb_adoplus.dll into dotnet1 folder, if the dotnet1 folder does not exist      on “”<strong><em>C:\Program Files\SAP BusinessObjects\Crystal Reports for .NET      Framework 4.0\Common\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\win32_x86</em></strong>”      create it and copy the <strong>crdb_adoplus.dll</strong> on this folder (dotnet1).</li>
<li>The above File path will look like “<strong><em>C:\Program      Files\SAP BusinessObjects\Crystal Reports for .NET Framework      4.0\Common\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI      4.0\win32_x86\dotnet1\crdb_adoplus.dll</em></strong>“.</li>
<li>Now open your Application’s Configuration File “<strong>[ProjectName].exe.config</strong>”      if your Project name is<strong><em>myCollection</em></strong> then the Configuration      File will be “<strong><em>myCollection.exe.config</em></strong>“, Locate the ff: line</li>
</ol>
<p><code>&lt;supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"&gt;<br />
&lt;/startup&gt;</code></p>
<p>and replace it with the ff:</p>
<p><code>&lt;startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true"&gt;<br />
&lt;supportedRuntime version="v4.0"/&gt;<br />
&lt;/startup&gt;</code></p>
<p>This will tell Visual Studio to Support the Runtime Version 4.0, failed to do it will result in the ff: error<br />
“<strong>Mixed mode assembly is built against version ‘v2.0.50727′ of the runtime</strong><strong><br />
<strong>and cannot be loaded in the 4.0 runtime without additional configuration information.</strong></strong>”</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>ASP.NET 4.5 has been improved and latest version ASP.NET. It includes an array of new and modified features. Today we’ll discuss one new feature Unobtrusive Validation that is introduced with ASP.NET 4.5 .</p>
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So what is Unobtrusive Validation?</p>
<p>In a normal validation scenario,when we use a validator to validate any any control and use Client side validation, some <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/index.php/archives/291">.NET 4.5 Hosting :: Unobtrusive Validation with ASP.NET 4.5</a></span>]]></description>
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<strong>So what is Unobtrusive Validation?</strong></p>
<p>In a normal validation scenario,when we use a validator to validate any any control and use Client side validation, some JavaScript is generated and rendered as HTML. Also some supportive JavaScript files is also get loaded by the browser for the validation.</p>
<p>Now with feature Unobtrusive Validation, inline JavaScript is not generated and rendered to handle the Client Side validation. Instead of this it uses HTML5 data-* attributes for all these validation.</p>
<p>So now lets see a normal scenario. I have taken textbox and applied two ASP.NET validators on it. One is RequiredFieldValidator and RangeValidator that allows to enter the value between 100 and 1000. Let’s see the aspx code<br />
<a href="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/lol1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-293" title="lol1" src="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/lol1.jpg" alt="" width="632" height="85" /></a><br />
Now Lets run the application and see the generated the HTML. Now if you look at the View Source of the page</p>
<p><img title="lol2" src="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/lol2.jpg" alt="" width="583" height="58" /></p>
<p>To handle these validation, it generates the lots of JavaScript code on the page. It is</p>
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Now I have made the same application with Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview. By default Unobtrusive Validation is enabled here. So let’s see the generated HTML</p>
<p><a href="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/lol5.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-297" title="lol5" src="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/lol5.jpg" alt="" width="646" height="96" /></a></p>
<p>Now if you see the above generated HTML, there are few data-* attributes are rendered. And these hold all the required information of the validator. And there is no inline JavaScript code generated. This reduces the significant amount of page size because here inline JavaScript code is not generated and this also makes the rendered HTML neat and clean.</p>
<p>So let’s see how asp.net 4.5 allows to configure the Unobtrusive Validation. There is one new property UnobtrusiveValidationMode got added, which can be assigned two values</p>
<p>- None : means UnobtrusiveValidation is set to off<br />
- WebForms : means UnobtrusiveValidation is enabled</p>
<p>This property can be configured at three places in application. These are:</p>
<p>1. First it can be set at application level in config file. We need to add it in the &lt;appSettings&gt; element.<br />
<code>&lt;add name=</code><code>"ValidationSettings:UnobtrusiveValidationMode"</code> <code>value=</code><code>"WebForms"</code> <code>/</code></p>
<p>As I discussed it is by default enabled in asp.net. The above key by default added in web.config. So if you want to disable it then change the above as<br />
<code>&lt;add name=</code><code>"ValidationSettings:UnobtrusiveValidationMode"</code> <code>value=</code><code>"None"</code> <code>/&gt;</code></p>
<p>2. We can also set it at Application_Start method in Global.asaxfile as<br />
<code>void</code> <code>Application_Start(</code><code>object</code> <code>sender, EventArgs e)<br />
</code>{<br />
//Enabling UnobtrusiveValidation application wide<br />
     ValidationSettings.UnobtrusiveValidationMode = UnobtrusiveValidationMode.WebForms;<br />
}</p>
<p>3. We can also set it at page level by setting the property of Page Class as<br />
Page.UnobtrusiveValidationMode = System.Web.UI.UnobtrusiveValidationMode.WebForms;</p>
<p>I hope this post will going to help a lot to learn ASP.NET 4.5</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>About Crystal Reports</p>
<p>Crystal Report has been a partner of developer in creating a professional reporting since the early versions of Visual Studio.Microsoft proves that they have the speed on creating and updating their products, although Business Objects tried to follows the abrupt products updates of Microsoft still they left behind the race. In fairness with the <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/index.php/archives/284">Crystal Report 2010 Hosting :: Crystal Report for VS 2010</a></span>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>About Crystal Reports</strong></p>
<p>Crystal Report has been a partner of developer in creating a professional reporting since the early versions of Visual Studio.Microsoft proves that they have the speed on creating and updating their products, although Business Objects tried to follows the abrupt products updates of Microsoft still they left behind the race. In fairness with the Business Objects, they have also a quality products that most programmer depends on.</p>
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<p><strong>Crystal Reports 2010 in Visual Studio 2010?</strong></p>
<p>The questions “<strong><em>Is CR2010 beta can be use in Visual Studio 2010?</em></strong>” the answer is <strong>YES</strong>, of course, even though CR is still on its beta version (<em>Free to download and will remain free as the Business Objects representative </em>Cheers, Blair said.) we will be able to use it in VS2010 but need for some settings to be set in order that this products will be able to use. Based on my experience I am going to show you how I did it just consider for some procedures to follow.</p>
<ol>
<li>Download the CR2010 beta 2 from Business Object      Website.</li>
<li><a title="Crystal Report Beta 2" href="http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/cr4vs2010.exe" target="_blank">Crystal      Reports for Visual Studio 2010</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforNET40_x86.exe" target="_blank">Crystal Reports Runtime engine      for .net framework 4.0 (32 bit)</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforNET40_x64.exe" target="_blank">Crystal Reports Runtime engine      for .net framework 4.0 (64 bit)</a>.</li>
<li>You are going to need these two installer the CR2010      for VS2010 and the Crystal Report Runtime Engine.</li>
<li>Any previous installed crystal report should uninstall      first before installing the new release.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Or you can now download the Production Release from the ff:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li><a title="Standard EXE installation package which installs the software into the Visual Studio IDE." href="http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_13_0.exe">SAP Crystal Report Version for Visual Studio 2010.</a></li>
<li><a title="Click once installation package used to create self-updating Windows-based applications which can be installed and run with minimal user interaction." href="http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_clickonce_13_0.zip">Click Once SAP Crystal Reports, version for Visual      Studio 2010 -</a></li>
<li>Merge Module SAP Crystal Reports, version for Visual      Studio 2010 -</li>
<li><a href="http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_redist_install_32bit_13_0.zip">SAP Crystal Reports runtime engine for .NET Framework 4      (32-bit)</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_redist_install_64bit_13_0.zip">SAP Crystal Reports runtime engine for .NET Framework 4      (64-bit)</a></li>
</ol>
<p>Now install Crystal Reports For Visual Studio 2010 on your developer machine and as well as Runtime Engine. Create a setup program on your project, on Project Solution Explorer right click the setup, in the picture below it shows AISCollection and select properties:</p>
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<p>on Properties Dialog box click Prerequisites, to show the prerequisites dialog box as shown below:</p>
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<p>If you cannot see Crystal Report 2010 Runtime, surely it will not appear on your Prerequisites dialog because it was manually created using Bootstrapper Manifest Generator for Visual Studio 2008 you can download the Bootstrapper Manifest Generator <a title="Bootstrap Manfest Generator" href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/bmg/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=1567" target="_blank">HERE</a> to generate a prerequisite installer on your project. The same way with framework2 and Microsoft data Access Component for VS2010 all was created using Bootstrapper Manifest Generator. Crystal Report 2010 beta uses the .net framework 2.0 that’s why you need to include it on your setup. program. As an alternative way if you don’t want to create a prerequisite installer for that, you need to manually install the runtime and the .net framework 2.0 including the Microsoft data Access Component 2.8 on your client machine before all things will work perfectly. The Tutorials on how to use the Bootstrapper Manifest Generator will be available soon, please come back and check it here regularly.</p>
<p><strong>Issue Arising After Installing the new Crystal Report Production Release.</strong></p>
<p>Upon Compiling your projects if you do experience a not found error “<strong><em>crdb_adoplus.dll</em></strong>“, all you have to do are:</p>
<ol>
<li>Go to the folder “<strong><em>C:\Program Files\SAP      BusinessObjects\Crystal Reports for .NET Framework 4.0\Common\SAP      BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\win32_x86</em></strong>” and copy the      crdb_adoplus.dll into dotnet1 folder, if the dotnet1 folder does not exist      on “”<strong><em>C:\Program Files\SAP BusinessObjects\Crystal Reports for .NET      Framework 4.0\Common\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\win32_x86</em></strong>”      create it and copy the <strong>crdb_adoplus.dll</strong> on this folder (dotnet1).</li>
<li>The above File path will look like “<strong><em>C:\Program      Files\SAP BusinessObjects\Crystal Reports for .NET Framework      4.0\Common\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI      4.0\win32_x86\dotnet1\crdb_adoplus.dll</em></strong>“.</li>
<li>Now open your Application’s Configuration File “<strong>[ProjectName].exe.config</strong>”      if your Project name is<strong><em>myCollection</em></strong> then the Configuration      File will be “<strong><em>myCollection.exe.config</em></strong>“, Locate the ff: line</li>
</ol>
<p><code>1.&lt;supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"&gt;<br />
2.&lt;/startup&gt;</code></p>
<p>and replace it with the ff:</p>
<p><code>1.&lt;startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true"&gt;<br />
2. &lt;supportedRuntime version="v4.0"/&gt;<br />
3.&lt;/startup&gt;</code></p>
<p>This will tell Visual Studio to Support the Runtime Version 4.0, failed to do it will result in the ff: error<br />
“<strong>Mixed mode assembly is built against version ‘v2.0.50727′ of the runtime</strong><strong><br />
<strong>and cannot be loaded in the 4.0 runtime without additional configuration information.</strong></strong>”</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Einar Visockas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>A few years ago I created an application which is used by an tutoring institute. It’s not the best application I’ve ever created (and that’s a bit of an understatement), but it works. There are some bugs now and then, some new feature request, which I do when I’ve got some spare time. One part of <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/index.php/archives/282">Crystal Report 2010 Hosting :: Crystal reports runtime for .NET 4.0</a></span>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A few years ago I created an application which is used by an tutoring institute. It’s not the best application I’ve ever created (and that’s a bit of an understatement), but it works. There are some bugs now and then, some new feature request, which I do when I’ve got some spare time. One part of the application is generating invoices. I used Crystal reports to generate the invoices (first version in VS 2005, later in VS 2008).</p>
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<p>A while ago I upgraded my solution to Visual Studio 2010 and then the problems began. Crystal Reports is no longer included in Visual Studio but needs to be downloaded separately from SAP site. Problem one, it took a long time before the final version for .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 was available. I started using the beta version when I upgraded and it worked OK. The problem however was that there was decent no runtime installation available. I found a blog post (unfortunately I don’t have the link anymore) which indicated that you could redirect the newer assemblies to the ‘old’ VS 2008 version runtime. This worked out good for me so I was ok.</p>
<p>In November last year, the production release of Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 was ready. So when I got my new work laptop in December, I installed this last version. But then, last week I fixed a few minor bugs and made a little improvement, and I got in trouble with the deployment which complained about the Crystal Reports references. So I wanted to quickly download the runtime for the newer Crystal Reports version and install it on the client computer. However, that wasn’t done quickly. It took me a while to finally find the links to the redistributables and merge modules of the new runtime. One thing became clear and that was that I really dislike the SAP web site.</p>
<p>I finally found the links, so I wanted to post them here, so maybe some other people don’t have to spend the same amount of time as I had to, to find the installers</p>
<ul>
<li>Standard EXE installation package which installs SAP Crystal Reports for Visual Studio into the Visual Studio 2010 IDE can be found <a href="http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_13_0.exe">here</a>.</li>
<li>Click-Once installation package used to create self-updating Windows-based applications which can be installed and run with minimal user interaction can be found <a href="http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_clickonce_13_0.zip">here</a>.</li>
<li>Merge Modules installation package used to install components which are shared by multiple applications can be found <a href="http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_mergemodules_13_0.zip">here</a>.</li>
<li>Redistributable installation (32 bit) can be found <a href="http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_redist_install_32bit_13_0.zip">here</a>.</li>
<li>Redistributable installation (64 bit) can be found <a href="http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_redist_install_64bit_13_0.zip">here</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>I hope this saves some time for you.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Christopher Campbell</dc:creator>
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<p>Step 1: Open a Windows Forms Application &#38; place 2 DateTimePicker controls and a Button control in the form.</p>
<p>As shown in the form below:</p>
<p>
Write this code under a Form</p>
<p>using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Configuration;
using CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine;
using CrystalDecisions.ReportSource;
using CrystalDecisions.Shared;
using CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms;</p>
<p>namespace Student
{
    public partial class DateWise : Form
    {</p>
<p>        public DateWise()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
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<p><strong>Step 1:</strong> Open a Windows Forms Application &amp; place 2 DateTimePicker controls and a Button control in the form.</p>
<p>As shown in the form below:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/image_1.gif"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-273" title="image_1" src="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/image_1.gif" alt="" width="695" height="258" /></a><br />
Write this code under a Form</p>
<p><code>using System;<br />
using System.Collections.Generic;<br />
using System.ComponentModel;<br />
using System.Data;<br />
using System.Drawing;<br />
using System.Linq;<br />
using System.Text;<br />
using System.Windows.Forms;<br />
using System.Configuration;<br />
using CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine;<br />
using CrystalDecisions.ReportSource;<br />
using CrystalDecisions.Shared;<br />
using CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms;</p>
<p>namespace Student<br />
{<br />
    public partial class DateWise : Form<br />
    {</p>
<p>        public DateWise()<br />
        {<br />
            InitializeComponent();<br />
        }<br />
        private void DateWise_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)<br />
        {<br />
<br />
        }</p>
<p>        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)<br />
        {<br />
            DateReport datereport = new DateReport();<br />
            datereport.toDate = Convert.ToDateTime(cbTodate.Value);<br />
            datereport.FromDate = Convert.ToDateTime(cbFromDate.Value);<br />
            datereport.ShowDialog();<br />
        }     <br />
    }<br />
}</code></p>
<p><strong>Step 2:</strong> Creating a report: go to the Solution Explorer and add a new item in LHS Categories choose Reporting 7 in RHS choose Cryatal Rerport Template &amp; give a name for it then click thge Add Button then open a Galary and choose a Blank Report then open a window and go to Field Explorer, choose Database field then right click and select Database Expert.</p>
<p>Wizard choose Create New Connection, explore it choose OLEDB (ADO) for the Provider and select the provider named Microsoft OLEDB Provider For SQL Server / SQL Native Client (only for SQL Server) then click Next and fill in Connection Information &amp; click Finish.</p>
<p>Then the Report Creation Wizard is opened.</p>
<p>Now in the Report Wizard choose Database; explore it 7 choose the <a title="Replica watches" href="http://www.watchesn.com/">Stored</a> Procedure that your want as shown below.</p>
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<p><strong>Step 3:</strong> Click ok then go to Field Exploorer &amp; choose Stored Procedure; explore it &amp; drag &amp; drop field in Report Sesion (Details) &amp; design it as per your requirements.</p>
<p><strong>Step 4:</strong></p>
<p>If you want to pass a parameter to a report then right-click on Parameters Field in field Explorer. Then click on New.</p>
<p>For e.g.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/image_3.gif"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-275" title="image_3" src="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/image_3.gif" alt="" width="192" height="268" /></a></p>
<p>Now Create a parameter called fromdate as the start date.</p>
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<p>Similarly create a ToDate parameter.</p>
<p>CompanyName,Address,Website Follow the above procedure</p>
<p><strong>Step 5:</strong> Design the Report as shown in the screen below.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/image_5.gif"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-277" title="image_5" src="http://www.crystalreporthostingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/image_5.gif" alt="" width="791" height="522" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Step 6:</strong></p>
<p>(launching the Report) Add a new form and place a Crystal Report Viewer Control on it; set the Windows state property to Maximized.</p>
<p>Add a reference for System. Configuration assembly also add &#8220;Application Configuration File&#8221; i.e.app Config &amp; under it write the following:</p>
<p><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?&gt;<br />
&lt;configuration&gt;<br />
  &lt;configSections&gt;<br />
  &lt;/configSections&gt;<br />
  &lt;connectionStrings&gt;<br />
    &lt;add name="Student.Properties.Settings.StudentConnectionString"<br />
      connectionString="Data Source=.;Initial Catalog=Student;User;Password=p@ssw0rd"<br />
      providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /&gt;<br />
  &lt;/connectionStrings&gt;<br />
  &lt;appSettings &gt;<br />
    &lt;add key="CName" value="XYZ Software Solution"/&gt;<br />
    &lt;add key="Addr" value=" Address-"/&gt;<br />
    &lt;add key="WebSite" value=" Website:"/&gt;<br />
    &lt;add key="Y5Institute" value="Data Source=C1;Initial Catalog=Student;User;Password=p@ssw0rd;"/&gt;<br />
  &lt;/appSettings&gt;<br />
&lt;/configuration&gt;</p>
<p>using System;<br />
using System.Collections.Generic;<br />
using System.ComponentModel;<br />
using System.Data;<br />
using System.Drawing;<br />
using System.Linq;<br />
using System.Text;<br />
using System.Windows.Forms;<br />
using System.Configuration;<br />
using CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine;<br />
using CrystalDecisions.Shared;</p>
<p>namespace Student<br />
{<br />
    public partial class ReportSelection : Form<br />
    {</p>
<p>        internal DateTime ToDate;<br />
        internal DateTime FromDate;<br />
        public ReportSelection()<br />
        {<br />
            InitializeComponent();<br />
        }</p>
<p>        private void ReportSelection_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)<br />
        {<br />
            ConnectionInfo CInfo = new ConnectionInfo();<br />
            CInfo.ServerName = "Connection";  // This Should be the same name What we have Configured under Oledb(ADO)<br />
            CInfo.UserID = "sa";<br />
            CInfo.Password = "p@ssw0rd";</p>
<p>            TableLogOnInfo tableInfo = new TableLogOnInfo(); // providing table Details  use the Seperate object of TableLogOnInfo Class for each table we use in the Report<br />
            tableInfo.ConnectionInfo = CInfo;</p>
<p>            TableLogOnInfos tablelog = new TableLogOnInfos();<br />
            tablelog.Add(tableInfo);<br />
            crystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = "F:\\kiran\\Student\\Student\\StudentFees.rpt"; //&lt;"Path of the report"&gt;;<br />
            crystalReportViewer1.LogOnInfo = tablelog;</p>
<p>          // Using Above Coding to Skip/Elliminate user Id,passaword i.e.Connection Datails</p>
<p>            string cname = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("CName");<br />
            string addr = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("Addr");<br />
            string Website = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("WebSite");         <br />
            ReportDocument obj = new ReportDocument();<br />
            obj.Load("F:\\kiran\\Student\\Student\\StudentFees.rpt");<br />
            crystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = obj;<br />
            obj.SetParameterValue("CompanyName", cname);<br />
            obj.SetParameterValue("Address", addr);<br />
            obj.SetParameterValue("Company Website", Website);<br />
            obj.SetParameterValue("@StattDate",ToDate);<br />
            obj.SetParameterValue("@EndDate",FromDate);<br />
           <br />
        }<br />
    }<br />
}</code></p>
<p>I attached a database (tables &amp; Stored Procedure; execute it).</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reporting &#8211; generally understood as <span style="text-decoration: underline;">a way of presenting data and information</span> &#8211; is one of the most important aspects of the performance management process. Performance management itself is &#8211; in a word &#8211; nothing more than asking and answering three questions about enterprise &#8211; how is it doing, why, and what to do, then?<br />
With reporting, manager should be supported in making efficient decisions as quickly as possible. There are quite a lot of reporting tools currently on offer, therefore every customer has a possibility of finding a solution suiting him best. But how? All in all, proper choice isn&#8217;t easy.</p>
<p>Although every comparison depends on the point of customer&#8217;s perspective, usually at least the choice of solutions to be compared is simple. Not this time. While confronting Microsoft with SAP, even this choice isn&#8217;t so obvious. According to that, Microsoft Reporting Services should be compared twice, from a two-dimensional perspective.</p>
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<p>As shown in the diagram below, <strong>Microsoft Reporting Services</strong> might function in a twofold way. Firstly, as a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">standalone reporting server</span>, therefore working as an independent solution, and, secondly, as a tool to integrate reporting into a parallel <span style="text-decoration: underline;">.Net application</span>.<br />
The thing of this comparison is to answer, whether one, common solution &#8211; Microsoft Reporting Services &#8211; is enough to replace two separate concretely-aimed solutions. Both &#8211; offered by SAP &#8211; Crystal Reports 2008 and Crystal Reports Server XI have been designed for different types of customers.</p>
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<h3>Reporting Services and Crystal Reports</h3>
<p>Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, unlikely Crystal Reports, is quite a new tool, released in 2004. Announced to be distributed for free (bundled with the MS SQL Server), Reporting Services has had to grab the attention of <strong>Visual Studio .NET users</strong>.<br />
Very loudly introduced to the market, SQL Server Reporting Services has immediately become the most significant Crystal Reports&#8217; rival. Suddenly people started comparing two extremely different (in an experience perspective) tools &#8211; &#8220;new-born&#8221; SSRS, and more than ten-years-old Crystal Reports (11 version). Years of incessant improvements were stood across brand-new product. No one could have been sure of results of the clash. What were the both sides&#8217; arguments?</p>
<p>To begin with &#8211; that time &#8211; already existing solution, Crystal Reports. The first thing repeated as often as possible, were the years of experience that haven&#8217;t gone to waste. With every new product release, producer provided numerous fixes, increasing also the system&#8217;s performance. While introducing 11 version to a market, SAP emphasized that current release is completely different from &#8220;not-the-best&#8221; Crystal 8.5 version.</p>
<p>On the other hand, Microsoft praised SQL Server Reporting Services for its freshness, and &#8211; disposing SAP&#8217;s experience boasts &#8211; demonstrated SSRS readiness to immediate use. While preparing this product, Microsoft had a chance do rate every offered then solution, and, therefore, had a chance to base on best parts of each, still having enough time to ensure not multiplying the weaknesses. Thereupon, even the newest product might have competed with those already released.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s have a look, how does it work in a practice.</p>
<h3>Integrating reporting into a .Net application</h3>
<p>The first strength of Reporting Services is Microsoft brand followed by world fame and generally-known trustworthiness. Almost everyone has heard about the Redmond Giant, therefore people might feel a bit more familiar with Microsoft than SAP. Along that, comes a loyalty. Regardless of thousands of accusation presented everyday by Microsoft&#8217;s opponents, worldwide recognition result in better start position while thinking about choosing a solution. Back to Reporting Services, it&#8217;s a solution known for its features &#8211; provided set is richly enough for majority of basic uses.</p>
<p>Problems begin when it comes to a bit more advanced tasks, for example combining web data with local data. Reporting Services cannot ensure such cooperation, rather Crystal Reports 2008 would be better. The same problems come out while trying to do both financial and non-financial reports with only one reporting tool. Unlikely Crystal Reports 2008 and its improved crosstabs, Microsoft Reporting Services isn&#8217;t designed well-enough to fulfill these needs.</p>
<p>While talking about Microsoft world-famous name, an interesting aspect should also be mentioned. It&#8217;s not as widely-known fact, that <strong>Business Objects cooperates with Microsoft</strong>, becoming its &#8220;Gold Partner&#8221;. The partnership lasts for quite a lot of time as Crystal Reports supplies Microsoft platform. What&#8217;s worth noticing, Crystal Reports has been also included in Visual Basic and Visual Studio environments. This kind solution has been offered since the version 2 Visual Basic development environment and does not seem to be retired soon, as it continues with Visual Studio 2008.</p>
<h3>SSRS and Crystal Reports strengths and weaknesses</h3>
<p>SQL Server Reporting Services is praised especially for its independence, but its generality has also a few bad sides.</p>
<p>The first thing that might have been prepared much better is <strong>report design environment</strong>. The one included in Reporting Services lacks in options. Moreover, editing reports with data is almost impossible &#8211; that demands a separate preview cycle, what results in lengthening report design process. Also, the formula of editing might be a bit more advanced. And finally, accessing data demands SQL knowledge. Solutions provided by Crystal Reports 2008 seem more <strong>user-friendly</strong>. What&#8217;s most significant, Crystal Reports allows changing report design even while it&#8217;s been already fulfilled with the data. Then, adding conditional logic to reports is simplified, due to a broadened formula workshop included in Crystal Reports 2008. Also, knowing SQL isn&#8217;t required &#8211; with graphical Database Expert, data access is possible simply as drag and drop.</p>
<p>Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services <strong>doesn&#8217;t support Flash and Flex</strong>, impossible is forwarding data from report into Flash.</p>
<p>Crystal Reports 2008 cooperates well with Adobe Flash and Flex. Well-prepared integration enables creating <strong>powerful visualizations</strong> with only standard tools. With simplified Adobe Flex embedding, integrating reports with different web services is easier than ever before. With a help of Xcelsius, designing what-if scenarios is also possible.</p>
<p>Reporting Services isn&#8217;t also designed straight for financial reporting. This kind uses generally demand implementing a second tool &#8211; <strong>Microsoft FRX/Performance Point server</strong>. In opposite to Crystal Reports 2008 that is provided with crosstab features which creating financial reports is much easier with. Crystal Reports is completely <strong>self-sufficient</strong> &#8211; a customer doesn&#8217;t need to use any other reporting tool for financial reports.</p>
<p>Furthermore, <strong>Reporting Services doesn&#8217;t enable web deployments without the SQL server database</strong> &#8211; applications based on SSRS need to operate on SQL Server. The thing looks extremely different in Crystal Reports &#8211; it has its own reporting engine, therefore no other support is required. What&#8217;s more, deploying runtime engine to server isn&#8217;t problematic with only 24MB EXE, .MSI or MSM file &#8211; all self-extracting.</p>
<p>Finally, Reporting Services has never been a goal itself. It&#8217;s main role is to increase SQL Server sale, and &#8211; for that &#8211; run both database and report processing on one server. Crystal Reports functions a bit differently with over fifteen-year experience in reporting that led to separating database from report processing. During these years efficient partnerships have been worked out, thereupon currently cooperating with Flash or other formats is rather trouble-free.</p>
<p>Even though Crystal Reports has a lot of strengths, there are some widely known weaknesses that have been improved in newest releases. Former versions of Crystal Reports were accused of <strong>too complex licensing, too big footprint, and, finally, being too static.</strong></p>
<p>Fortunately, things have got significantly improved with Crystal 2008. Current licensing enables user to free deploy all kinds of applications across the enterprise, as well as royalty-free access to .Net Report Creation interfaces. Also, Crystal Reports implementing isn&#8217;t as problematic as before with only about 24MB runtime engine and 300MB report design tool. Changes have applied not only to prevent the weaknesses, but also increasing strengths with a higher level of interactivity &#8211; Crystal Reports 2008 customers are supported with new parameter panels and controls.</p>
<h3>Reporting Services as a standalone reporting server</h3>
<p>Functioning as a standalone reporting server, Microsoft Reporting Services has almost the same set of strengths, which are also followed by a low price. Microsoft&#8217;s product seems to be significantly <strong>cheaper than its equivalents</strong>. The thing isn&#8217;t so obvious, though. Reporting Services might be really implemented for free, but only while not separating report from database processing. Trying to use Reporting Services on an independent server, buying another SQL Server license is required.</p>
<p>Not only strengths are similar. While using Microsoft Reporting Services as a standalone reporting server, some weaknesses repeat as well. The same as earlier, design environment isn&#8217;t enough for anything more than extremely basic uses. Also the accusations of Reporting Services dependence are well-founded. Unfortunately, the list of weaknesses isn&#8217;t over yet.</p>
<p>Another troubles come out while trying to use a <strong>semantic layer</strong> for accessing a relational data &#8211; it&#8217;s impossible. For this place, Crystal Reports Server XI &#8211; SAP&#8217;s equivalent for standalone reporting server &#8211; offers Business Views semantic layer, which power is mixed with highest levels security in.</p>
<p>Microsoft Reporting Services significantly lacks for advanced exporting capabilities. By standard offered are only static exports to Excel spreadsheets and PDF files. How is it solved in Crystal Reports? By the <strong>Live Office</strong> service that enables live integrating modifiable reports into Microsoft Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and other Office documents.</p>
<p>Microsoft Reporting Services is designed rather for online work, therefore viewing reports while being offline demands converting files. SAP provides Crystal Reports Viewer XI &#8211; it&#8217;s a free tool, which viewing reports &#8211; even being disconnected &#8211; is possible in.</p>
<p>Finally, Crystal Reports offer an online service <span style="text-decoration: underline;">www.crystalreports.com/share</span> &#8211; it&#8217;s a nice facilitation allowing customers to host and share online their reports. That reduces a necessary IT involvement. Microsoft doesn&#8217;t have anything like that.</p>
<h3>Comparison summary</h3>
<p>As it&#8217;s been mentioned many times before (at the beginning of this article, as well), the choice of every reporting tool, or maybe more generally: of every product, depends on customer&#8217;s needs. Specifying them is a first step that must be done before even trying to choose anything. Unfortunately, not all the customers remembered about that and &#8211; as soon as they heard about new product &#8211; moved leaving all the rest behind. Not everyone was happy with that change.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s impossible to unambiguously state which one, SSRS or Crystal Reports, is better. Depends on the requirements. Despite all of the strengths and weaknesses, no product is perfect since its beginning. And &#8211; as well &#8211; no one can guarantee that the final version of product will be perfect. Customers must be prepared for advantages and disadvantages, therefore they should care especially to choose a product, which producer ensures not to leave a client alone with his problems.</p>
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