Mastering Crystal Reports 9

Very Good reference book! Clear and Concise, NO blah blah blah! Easy to find the topic you are looking for, and accurate steps to follow. Buy this book!

This is one of the best and most content rich of all the Crystal Reports books.Contains everything from the most basic usage to the more complex reports, formulas, SQL and programming issues.If you are an instructor and need a book to use teaching CR this is the book for you.

I have been using crystal reports for several years; I really wanted to learn how to correctly deploy reports on the Web. This book really helped me out in that area. I went from knowing nothing about Crystal Report version 8.5 and 9.0 web features to implementing custom reporting solutions that will be used for our clients. We had several ideas on how reporting should be implemented and thank goodness Crystal has already done that for us. This book even showed me how to use the existing code provided by Crystal and implementing it with our applications. In past I have had problems with correctly displaying reports within a web browser. It also helped me cleared all the confusions. If you are trying to make sense out of web deployment give this book a try. I would also recommend "Crystal Reports 9 The Complete Reference ISBM 0-07-222519-X" by Osborne.Good Luck

This book really explained the new concepts in Crystal Reports 9 for me. That's good for me because I'll be able to apply these new features right away. One of the reasons the book worked for me is because it provides a framework for the features of Crystal Reports. My only complaint is that there were a couple of sections where I would liked more depth (though the book is already a brick), but it gives me enough information to find what I need. Since I'm primarily a programmer, the Visual Basic 6 and ASP were especially helpful--lots of good examples provided. I didn't need the chapter that introduced O-O but I thought it was really well written.