Crystal Reports Quick Run

Crystal Reports are most robust and a very versatile reporting solution from "Business Objects". For highly functional and aesthetically pleasing report generation, Crystal Report is ideally suited. Crystal Report   can be used to programmatically create reports and interact with them at run time. The Crystal Report Designer allows creating and formatting the report without coding. The Report Engine processes all the formatting, grouping, and charting criteria to design the report. Crystal Reports provide .NET developers with a richest API. Crystal Reports can be used in either Windows or a web application. Users can run the Windows application on a Windows platform or deploy the web application on a client browser to view the Crystal report. Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application used to design and generate reports from a wide range of data sources.

The features are:

  1. A common standard file format allows for feature-rich reports that contain data retrieval criteria, grouping, summary, parameter, drill down, and sub report linking information.
  2. An embedded Crystal Reports designer, assisted by wizards and experts, builds complex report files easily.
  3. A Crystal Reports SDK interacts with and modifies reports programmatically. It uses one of four different object models, each with increasing levels of complexity and power.
  4. Merge module deployment ensures the correct Crystal Reports' components and assemblies are added to a Web or Windows application that is created in Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005.

Crystal report brings the ability to create interactive and qualitative presentation to the .NET platform.

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