Why Use Crystal Reports?
Crystal Reports is the integrated reporting tool in Visual Studio .NET. Based on the type of application you're developing—desktop or Web-based—Crystal provides report viewers that integrate into forms to display reports built with the Crystal Reports designer.
For simple reporting, you can bind a report to a viewer and just display it or you can use the rich object model that Crystal exposes to completely control the customization of your reports. Using the Crystal Reports designer is by far the easiest way to create reports out of the box with Visual Studio .NET. In addition to great support for Web Form viewers and Windows Forms viewers, you can also expose Crystal reports as XML Web services. When a report is exposed ...
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