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printing and reporting available in Visual Basic: Crystal Reports, Access, and the Rich Text Box. This lesson presented you with helpful classes that should be immediately beneficial in making your applications flexible when you need to dynamically choose a reporting option for changing user reporting needs. Tomorrow, your lesson will give valuable class structures for handling file operations such as Random, Sequential, Binary, and once again, Rich Text Box file operations. |
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Q What are three mechanisms for designing and creating reports in Visual Basic? |
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A Crystal Reports, Access Reports, and Rich Text Box Reports. |
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Q What is the more popular reporting mechanism known to Visual Basic developers? |
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A The more popularly known approach of the three reporting mechanisms is Crystal Reports. |
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Q What is Printer.hDC used for? |
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A Printer.hDC is the handle to the default printer. hDC stands for the handle to the device context (for the printer in this case). Use it to print to the physical printer it identifies. |
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Q What is the ActiveX type for an Access Application object? |
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Q What is the ActiveX type for an Access Report object? |
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Q What factors are important when designing your graphical user interface and underlying subsystem? |
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A The kinds and total number of reports your application presents to users; how your users will use your application as indicated by the use cases that indicate the presentation of information in report form; and the underlying printing options you make available with the reports you present to your users. |
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The workshop includes quiz questions to help gauge your grasp of the material. You'll find the answers to this quiz in Appendix A, Answers. Even if you feel that you totally understand the concepts presented here, you should work through the quiz anyway. The last section contains exercises for you to work through to help reinforce your learning. |
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