Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio® .NET 2003 in 21 Days

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 ...