Crystal Reports .NET common Problems

Crystal Report .NET Rules and Tips

Rule 1:
Crystal in .NET doesn’t work properly always, it gives proper functional.
Rule 2:
The error message you see has got nothing to do what you need to fix.
Rule 3:
The IDE does weird things; there are work arounds to get them working.

Common Problem 1:
Crystal report when deployed to web server complains “keyCode” [...]

Visual Studio.NET Add-in FREE

I decided to create Visual Studio.NET Add-in and give it away to public for FREE. I saw some add-ins that we need to pay for. Not all add-ins are affordable and in corporates, if you want to buy them, it will take ages.
Ok concept of first add-in:
It’s all about aliases. We write similar code a [...]

FireFox, the borwser that does most of things right

I just happened to download service pack 4, it was taking quite sometime to download all of them through my good old IE6. I though FireFox has better downloading capabilities than IE6, so opened up FireFor punched in the URL http://www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/2000/sp4.asp. The font size and fone family for that page was very inconsistent. I guess [...]

Full text search

I recently encountered a problem using MS SQL Server FullText search. Error message was…
Full-Text Search is not enabled for the current database
I realised that i Full Text was not installed, i installed it. Then found that we have to enable it on every database we need FullTextsearch. Which i did …
Use MyDatabase
EXEC sp_fulltext_database ‘enable’
Now, i [...]

ASPNET_REGIIS

Sometimes when you try to create a Web Project Visual Studio complains that it cant create ASP.NET project. This happens when you deploy ASP.NET application to a new web server it shows all code and not output. Usually its the fact that ASP.NET is not registered with IIS. If we register it it will work [...]

Intellisense for XSL/XSLT?

Every wondered that it would be better to have intellisense in Visual Studio.NET? I sometimes tend to forget the XSL syntax. I then look up http://www.w3schools.com, but it takes sometime. Fesersoft has something to download and explore. Whats good about it?
Its free.
What do you learn?
We can understand how Visual Studio.NET actually does intellisense and how [...]

Mac’s Tiger, is sooo Good!

I just had a look at Apple’s Tiger, the new operating system. Mark, our interface designer was playing with it. Ahhhh……. The look, functionality, speed and graphics drives me crazy. Its so cute and well done. Its got UNIX kernel. I started to use it as UNIX box now, as i like the command line [...]