This is going to be a great event! If you're close by, definately make time for this one. We're very fortunate to have both ComponentOne and the progressive grocery store chain Giant Eagle based here in Pittsburgh, and doubly so they will share their knowledghe for free.
source: http://pghdotnet.org/Events/118.aspx
Tonight's event will includes two separate presentations. The first is Building a 3-Tier Web Application with a WinForms Client presented by ComponentOne. The second is Building & Deploying Wireless Applications by Giant Eagle.
John Juback, Technology Evangelist for ComponentOne, will demonstrate how to implement an ASP.NET application with a WinForms counterpart. The focus of the presentation is a shared data library created with ComponentOne DataObjects for .NET. Data libraries are reusable assemblies that encapsulate all aspects of a data schema, including partitioning into logical datasets, composite tables, business rules, calculated fields, constraints, and custom methods. This presentation will illustrate how a single data library assembly serves WinForms and WebForms clients in either 2-tier (client-server) or 3-tier (Web service) modes. Data library deployment is handled through configuration files; no modifications or special case coding are needed.
Brian Kalmar, Technical Consultant & .Net Evangelist for Giant Eagle Inc., will be our guest for this month's .NET User Group meeting. He will bring in a few of the handheld devices used by Giant Eagle in their stores, complete with barcode scanners, WinCE.Net and 802.11-b radios. Brian will demonstrate how to create and deploy an application to the device using Visual Studio.Net in C#. If time permits, he will also discuss how to deploy applications and DLL's wirelessly to the devices. The presentation will wrap up with an overview of some of the changes that are being made in the next release of the Compact Framework CF2.0 and VS.Net 2005.
My second Crystal Alliance article was published today:
Automatically Printing Crystal Reports in ASP.NET
source: http://aspalliance.com/509
Unlike the Windows Forms CrystalReportViewer toolbar, the web-based CrystalReportViewer toolbar does not include a print button. For reports that are directly rendered as HTML, the user can simply use the browser's print button. For reports rendered as PDF or Excel, the user can use the print functionality in either the Acrobat Reader or Excel to print the report.
Most users can figure out how to print the report, but some still need a little help, and in some cases, clients request this as part of their application specs. In this article, we'll review two methods for automatically printing a Crystal Report using the web-based CrystalReportViewer: the server side ReportDoucment.PrintToPrinter method, and a small client-side JavaScript that uses the window.print method. We'll also discuss rendering a report in PDF and allowing the user to print that document as an alternative to the two other methods. Because of the disconnected nature of web client applications, and security considerations, there isn't a perfect way to make every web-based Crystal Report automatically print. But, under certain conditions, we can provide this functionality in user-friendly ways.