Một trong những công cụ quan trọng là Microsoft Visual Integrated Development Environment (IDE). IDE giúp ta lập trình Visual () dễ dàng, thoải mái và thích thú. IDE không những cung cấp mọi công cụ lập trình cần thiết không thể tìm thấy ở một ứng dụng (application) soạn nguồn mã thông thường bằng chữ (text editors) mà còn giúp kiểm tra nguồn mã (code checking) hay tạo giao diện Windows thích hợp và hiển thị, truy tìm các tập tin liên hệ đến dự án (project) và nhiều thứ khác nữa | Chapter 1 For more information on deploying your Crystal Reports .NET application go to Chapter 10 Distributing Your Application. ADO .NET With the introduction of ADO .NET data access has become much easier and Crystal Reports .NET can take advantage of ADO and the ADO .NET dataset. Instead of having to work out how to access various data sources Crystal Reports .NET can simply access the ADO .NET dataset as the source for any report you may create. XML Report Web Services For sharing reports and creating tiered applications XML Report Web Services are invaluable. Within the Visual Studio IDE you can create a Web Service from a report file with two clicks. From that point Report Web Services can be exposed to users inside and outside of your organization and can be consumed using one of the new viewers included with the product. To optimize the report pages coming over the wire XML is used to send the report a page at a time to either the Windows or Web Report Viewer which makes reports viewed from Web Services quick and responsive. Installing Crystal Reports .NET Crystal Reports .NET ships as a component of Visual Studio .NET and can be installed from the common Visual Studio .NET setup utility. If you are installing Visual Studio .NET for the first time you may need to complete the Windows Component Update shown in Figure 1-10 before you can begin. The setup utility will look at your current configuration and determine whether you need to update any files or applications. If required setup will guide you through the update process. After you have completed the component update you can install Visual Studio .NET. The option to install Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET can be found under the Enterprise Development Tools options when selecting installation components. By default when you select the Crystal Reports option all of the related components will be installed as well as shown in Figure 1-11 16 Crystal Reports .NET Overview Figure 1-10 Figure 1-11 17 .
