Pro VS 2005 Reporting using SQL Server and Crystal Reports

Pro VS 2005 Reporting Using SQL Server and Crystal Reports offers a
proven methodology for building reporting solutions. The authors focus
on SQL Server 2005 and Crystal Reports, but also cover other popular
technologies like Oracle and ActiveReports, to give you a thorough
grounding in the reporting field. The book presents the requirements for
a real-world reporting application in a distributed environment, and
covers all the phases of development. You'll learn to:

- Define report content, format, definitions, and rules.
- Establish data requirements.
- Build and test stored procedures.
- Construct a data access layer in .NET.
- Account for different architectures using XML web services and .NET
Remoting.
- Design the reports using Crystal Reports.
- Develop a Windows Forms client application to allow users to launch
reports and set report options.
- Export report output to other sources such as PowerPoint. In many
business applications, reports play a critical role. The stakeholders of
a software system expect reports to summarize data and efficiently
present it to business users and decision markers. They expect reports
to present data in ways they can easily interpret, and in ways that help
them evaluate and analyze business performance. Visual Studio 2005, SQL
Server 2005, and Crystal Reports contain powerful capabilities to help
you build and deliver sophisticated presentation output. This is the
only book available that shows you how to use all these disparate
technologies together to create a cohesive solution.

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