May 2008
Intermediate to advanced
784 pages
22h 5m
English
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Chapter 21. Reporting
For the business application developer, reports are a fact of life. You may want to spend your time developing cool user interfaces or figuring out the core algorithms used in Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. But instead, you invest many boring hours each week turning out report after report. And these reports take a significant toll on the programming community. In America alone, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates nearly 850 report-related deaths each year—and that doesn’t even count those who read the reports. I once had a customer that printed off 20 copies of a 600-page report every month for its top-level managers. Clearly stupefied by the amount of tree pulp used to generate this report, the staff was unable to come up with a more interesting name than “the monthly report.”
So, if you are a business programmer, reports are in your future. But whereas your forebears had to deal with languages such as RPG III, you get to use .NET. Hey, reports won’t be so bad after all. And even without resorting to third-party reporting tools, Visual Studio and .NET include several report-focused features and tools you can use right out of the box.
This chapter discusses some of those reporting resources, and delves a little deeper into the reporting controls used in the Library Project.
Report Options in .NET
Reporting involves displaying and printing basic or summarized data to the user for specific business purposes. Visual Basic 2008 Professional ...
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