Crystal Reports .NET Programming

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Summary: worst book i have bought
Review: The book is a Crystal Report - .Net centric book. I don't need to know how to create a report using the crystal interface, I need it to tell me how to create it using he Visual Studio IDE. This book teaches does just that. The best part about a book for me is the author himself. Like other notable technical authors (e.g. Cricket Liu), Brian trolls the newsgroups and on many occassions offers up free advice. Thank you Brian for the book and I hope you stay in the NG's.

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Summary: Fantastic Crystal Reports Reference
Review: This book paid for itself in the first 15 minutes of reading. I use Crystal Reports 9 with Visual Studio .Net, and had struggled with several issues while creating reports that I couldn't find answers for in the Crystal documentation. This book answered nearly every question that I had in a clear and simple way, and I have found it to be an invaluable resource when doing report programming in the Visual Studio .Net IDE.

My only gripes with this book are that there is no online version of the book included, and as a self published book, there are a large number of grammatical errors which detract a little from the reading experience. Other than that, this is a fantastic reference for anyone trying to learn Crystal Reports in a Visual Studio .Net environment.

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Summary: Perfect book to ramp up on Crystal for a .net developer
Review: This is an outstanding book that provides any .net developer exactly what they need to know to take full advantage of the version of Crystal Reports that comes with VS.NET. This book allowed me to ramp up and take full advantage of Crystal in just three days and will serve as an excellent reference as long as I use the product. I have read a lot of software books and I think this is the best written one that I have used. The only problem I've had with the book is that it isn't physically put together well; it's bound to tightly and poorly and pages are already falling out. It's good enough, however, that I'll buy another copy if this one totally falls apart.