Sams Teach Yourself .Net in 21 Days

By Jason Beres

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • About the Technical Editor
  • Acknowledgments
  • We Want to Hear from You
  • Introduction
  • Week 1: At a Glance
  • Day 1. Introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework
  • Day 2. Introduction to Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 3. Writing Windows Forms Applications
  • Day 4. Deploying Windows Forms Applications
  • Day 5. Writing ASP.NET Applications
  • Day 6. Deploying ASP.NET Applications
  • Day 7. Exceptions, Debugging, and Tracing
  • Week 1. In Review
  • Week 2: At a Glance
  • Day 8. Core Language Concepts in Visual Basic .NET and C#
  • Day 9. Using Namespaces in .NET
  • Day 10. Accessing Data with ADO.NET
  • Day 11. Understanding Visual Database Tools
  • Day 12. Accessing XML in .NET
  • Day 13. XML Web Services in .NET
  • Day 14. Components and .NET
  • Week 2. In Review
  • Week 3: At a Glance
  • Day 15. Writing International Applications
  • Day 16. Using Macros in Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 17. Automating Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 18. Using Crystal Reports
    • Why Use Crystal Reports?
    • Creating a Windows Forms Report
    • Using the Windows Forms Report Viewer
    • How to Programmatically Load a Report
    • Printing a Report Without the Viewer Control
    • Exporting a Report Programmatically
    • Viewing Reports in Web Forms
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Quiz
    • Exercises
  • Day 19. Understanding Microsoft Application Center Test
  • Day 20. Using Visual SourceSafe
  • Day 21. Object Role Modeling with Visio
  • Week 3. In Review

Exercises

1. Using what you learned today about reports in Windows Forms, take the code in Listing 18.1 and create a Web-based reporting application. You should add an ASPX page that enables the user to select a report. Then, using Reponse.Redirect, pass the report name to another ASPX page that loads the report dynamically at runtime.

   If your preference is to write reports using Windows Forms, you can take the code in Listing 18.1 and add the correct constructor to a form that accepts a report file name to bind to a generic viewer application.

2. Search the Dynamic Help for Crystal Reports. Find the Reporting Off ADO .NET Datasets section. This section walks you through the steps to create a report off a DataSet object. Read this walkthrough and try to work it out. If you need more help, you can go to the link in the Q&A and download the samples at the Crystal site for working with DataSets.

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