Reporting with Visual Studio
and Crystal Reports
Create a reporting application from scratch using
Visual Studio and Crystal Reports
Mahmoud Elkoush
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports
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First published: October 2013
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Credits
Author
Mahmoud Elkoush
Reviewers
Mohammed Imran Alam
Adeel Nasir
Acquisition Editor
Joanne Fitzpatrick
Lead Technical Editor
Govindan. K
Technical Editors
Pooja Arondekar
Anita Nayak
Copy Editors
Roshni Banerjee
Alda Paiva
Adithi Shetty
Laxmi Subramanian
Project Coordinator
Amigya Khurana
Proofreader
Jenny Blake
Indexer
Tejal Soni
Production Coordinator
Nitesh Thakur
Cover Work
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About the Author
Mahmoud Elkoush has over six years experience in software development. He
has used many technologies throughout his career such as Microsoft Visual Studio,
Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle database, Crystal Reports, and so on. He has worked
as a Project Manager in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for nearly two years, and
currently works as the Chief Information Ofcer of Geomeric.
This is the rst book that Mahmoud has written, and he hopes it will be the rst
of many.
I want to thank my wife because she convinced me to write this book
and supported me a lot to produce it.
