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Crystal Reports – Legacy CRM Reporting
So today i was experimenting with the Crystal Reports built-in components in the Visual Studio.Net 2008 IDE. I must admit that i imagined that the .Net crystal report datasource control and report viewer control would be easier to use. I am familiar with the SQL RS report desinger and i thought that they would be somewhat similar in creating reports, but i was very wrong.
It ended up with me spending a bit of time today cramming into a Crystal Reports 10 for Dummies book before i understood the differences between sql expression fields, parameter fields, and formula fields. I did find the book easy to read and i also realized that alot of the functionality of the built-in VS.Net control differed from the full application of CR.
I guess that some CRM customers will still have legacy Crystal Reports hanging around that have to be converted. And some customers that still love the CR interface. Now that business objects has been purchased by SAP i would imagine that most MS Consultants would write their reports in SQL Reporting services since the application is installed along with CRM.
Anyway, just my rant for the day and i am sure that i am not the Consultant out there that has dealt with legacy reporting in CRM 3.0 or just application development in general.
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