Archive for the ‘WebDev’ Category
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
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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 ...
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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).
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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