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Feb 24, 2009 at 04:33 PM

crystal report beginner - best practice in asp .net

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Hello

I'm working on an asp .net application, vs2008 framework 3.5 (Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio 2008), no service pack yet.

I need to generate some very simple reports and enable to user to print or export the report to a file.

As stated in the subject i'm new to crystal report, this is my first experience with it.

To learn i've developed two web site, they differs only for the datasource: the first connect to db using ole db, the second uses a dataset.

Since i'm testing it on the visul studio development server, i'd like to know what are the common mistakes to avoid ( or what are best practices in other words) when developing a web application which uses crystal report, i.e. i've found something on the web (that i haven't fully understood) about user login failing when database is on a different server than the iis on which is running the app.

then i've noticed that including the control in an updatepanel (Ajax) the print and exporting fails shall i configure something or is incompatible with ajax technology?

thank you in advance

S