No Stress Tech Guide To Crystal Reports Basic For Visual Studio 2008 For Beginners (Paperback)

by Indera Murphy (Author)
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Review
This title is intended for end-users and developers with no experience using the version of Crystal Reports that comes with Visual Studio 2008, or for those who have used a previous version and want to learn the basic features of this program. It does not require knowledge of Visual Basic or C++. Topics covered include creating reports from scratch; formatting and editing; selecting records; grouping, sorting, and summarizing records; report wizards and templates; printing and exporting; formulas and functions; conditional formatting; charts; perimeter fields; and additional functionality. Each chapter provides step-by-step instructions to the process including over 500 illustrations and screen shots, and concludes with activities to test new skills. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR) -- Research Book News -- August 2008

Product Description
This book is specifically for the version of Crystal Reports that comes with Visual Studio 2008. If you have been looking for a beginners book that has a lot of easy to understand, step-by-step instructions and screen shots that show you how to learn and use the version of Crystal Reports that comes bundled with Visual Studio 2008, this is the book for you. The No Stress Tech Guide To Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio 2008 For Beginners book, is a self-paced visual guide to learning Crystal Reports and is written from the perspective that the reader has not created a report before or has not used Crystal Reports. This book is for the beginner and intermediate user. To help you become familiar with the options and features, this book contains over 500 illustrations that provide a visual tour of the software. Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005, ISBN 978-0-9773912-6-4 is also available. If you are looking for a beginners book for Crystal Reports XI, see ISBN 978-0-9773912-3-3.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Tolana Publishing (March 24, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977391280
• ISBN-13: 978-0977391288
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #357,541 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Note the title - a basic resource for beginners, February 12, 2009

By	Clark B. Timmins "q-25" (West Jordan, UT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book suffers from an identity crisis--on the one hand it's a great resource for Crystal Reports 2008 basics for beginners; on the other hand it has little useful information for Visual Studio users. The book covers all the basics and lots of more advanced features of Crystal Reports 2008. The large-format pages and many visuals help present the material in an intelligible and useful way. The book's tone is friendly and accessible so that even non-technical users can understand the material. But that's not what a typical Visual Studio user is going to want!

The book's real value lies in the many exercises presented, and they cover a remarkable range of product features. However, the exercises focus almost entirely on using Crystal Reports 2008 as a stand-alone component--there is a notable lack of exercises demonstrating how the product integrates into the Visual Studio environment. Having said that, the exercises are clearly presented and use "real world" problems that teach useful principles. The book has an excellent index.

In conclusion, if you're a Visual Studio developer that wants to begin using basic Crystal Reports in the Visual Studio environment this will be a good resource. But if you're looking for a hard-hitting integration guide, this is not it.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I was disappointed, October 28, 2008

By	Gyan Popat (Columbus, OH) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book contains very elementary stuff ,, stuff that you can do using wizards.
It does NOT contain a single line of code behind, like ways to embed and pass values to a crystal reports template in a .net app

2.0 out of 5 stars Good for Crystal, June 24, 2009

By	A. Parmoon "VS User" (Arizona, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Book is a very good starting point for those wanting to learn Crystal Reports. However, it has minimal relevance to Visual Studio environment. That is don't expect to learn how to use Crystal from within VS-2008.