Crystal Report-An Introduction

In general, report is a proper formatted output. In .NET framework, we can create report with the help of inbuilt reporting tools called crystal report. Crystal Report is a business intelligence application which is used to generates reports from a various types of data sources. It allows users to graphically design report layout and data connections. It provides the ability to create interactive, presentation-quality content. When we think of a report then it is obvious that we want to do at least three things such as create, modify and run a report against a data in the data base.


While creating a report, some important things need to be remembered.
1. Table name
2. Kind of data from table.
3. Manipulation on data to get required and informative result.
4. Way to format the report etc.