Archive for the ‘WebDev’ Category

Setting Crystal Report database logon settings at runtime

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

Sources Troubleshooting Database Login Errors using Crystal Reports with .NET - Page 3 Automagically Display Crystal Parameters: Part III Specifying the Database Name Dynamically Dissecting the "Logon Failed" Error in Crystal Reports .NET

Printing Web based reports with Crystal Reports for Visual Studio

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

See this useful whitepaper from Crystal Decisions on printing web-based Crystal Reports (originally located here). Overview: Export report to printer-ready format (like pdf, rtf), let the client-side application for this format handle printing. Print the report directly to a printer connected to the server (obviously wont work for a ...

Refresh Stored Procedure Parameters in Crystal Reports

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

Oh, I wish I had known this a few weeks ago. To refresh the parameters for a Sql Server stored procedure in Crystal Reports 10, go to Database --> Verify Database. There is no need to remove and rebind the sproc to the report (stupid crystal...lousy documentation...arghhh).

DataReader vs. DataSet

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

In a 4 Guys article entitled Why I Don't Use DataSets in My ASP.NET Applications and in a blog post, Scott Mitchell discusses the merits of using DataSets to retrieve data in an ASP.net application (or lack thereof). Here's the gist of it: Although DataSets provide many useful builtin functions, they ...

MetaBuilders

Monday, May 2nd, 2005

Site run by Andy Smith featuring lots of cool (and free!) ASP.net controls. Controls that I have used so far include: Default Buttons - Assign a button event to fire when a user clicks enter while inside a textbox Dialog Window - Framework for displaying dialog boxes from within an ASP.net app ...

Transferring Sessions between ASP and ASP.net

Thursday, April 28th, 2005

As you will find out by doing some quick googling, there is no automatic way to transfer a session between ASP and ASP.net. Some have suggested that you should load the session variables in a database while in the ASP (or ASP.net) portion of the site and retrieve them into ...