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"Crystal Reports, with their hard and twisted bodies, their harsh and twisted wills. For a thousand years they have ruled. Yet now, there are only ten: a dying race, ruled by a dying Emperor, imprisoned within themselves in a dying land."
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I had one of those a few weeks ago. Cept it was my old project (been here a long time) and it was web based. Since Crystal is on the decline here (only a couple of reports left), it was easier to redo in C# and current CrystalDecisions dll's
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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What do you use as an alternative to Crystal?
Where I'm from, people work with the Crystal designer because it's relatively easy to use and you don't need programmers to create reports.
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I've used their WinForms controls in the past.
Great controls and great support, I might check this out for future work 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Great controls and great support
My verdict as well.
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Sorry for the late reply. I used Crystal. VS doesn't ship with it anymore but you can still download it from SAP Crystal Reports, dev version.[^]. Funny thing is I had to use Chrome to see the 'enter your data' boxes.
But it worked and was pretty quick to create a simple page. We only have a couple of Crystal Reports left and I'm sure those will go away soon.
Ron
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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Sander Rossel wrote: Option Strict Off
You already had my complete sympathy at that point.
... and then you mentioned Crystal. 
High time we all had a whip-round for Sander, I feel. How can we sleep at night if we fail to save him from this?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: How can we sleep at night if we fail to save him from this?
You thought YOU had trouble sleeping at night? 
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Living the dream! Me so jealous
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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For a small fee I'll pass it on to you 
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You should pay lw@zi for toxic waste disposal!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Sander Rossel wrote: VB.NET (Option Strict Off, basically meaning everything is an implicit cast),
I thought you were used to Javascript.
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I am, just not in my .NET code 
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Coders hate this one weird trick to create perfect apps!!!!*
On Error Resume Next stick it everywhere there is a Try ... Catch
* also known as "Make it even worse for the next sucker developer"
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Nice, I tried it and all my errors disappeared
Maybe make this into a tip/trick?
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Tip? Nah ... that's a reference
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Why you always win the lottery ? 
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Sounded familiar, but I still had to Google it
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Oh you poor bugger, I used to be a highly skilled CR developer but when a manager from Crystal called to ask if a problem I had reported 18 months ago was still current I changed to SSRS.
Then I delegated all reporting to a junior developer.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Sander, you've always seemed to me to be a good sort; What did you do to deserve being cast into Hell?
Will Rogers never met me.
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I started my own business 
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I once inherited a project which doesn't even run when compiled as release, only as debug. And another one with a couple hundreds (not kidding) warnings. My point is, while I feel your pain, I am not shocked in the slightest.
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Member 9167057 wrote: a project which doesn't even run when compiled as release, only as debug
Wow, don't think I've seen that before!
Member 9167057 wrote: another one with a couple hundreds (not kidding) warnings
Been there done that, turning on Option Strict in this project generates at least 100 errors.
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