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1. What are pivotal class methods for the three reporting mechanisms discussed in this lesson? |
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2. What is the benefit of using Microsoft Access for reporting? |
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3. What is the most common method you'll use in the Access object library? |
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4. What drives the Crystal Reports control? |
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5. What are the most popular Report Engine printing operations? |
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6. What is the chief benefit of the ReportScheduler class? |
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7. How does the Timer control and the ReportScheduler class members help the overall ReportScheduler class fulfill its responsibilities? |
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1. Using the ReportScheduler class mentioned in the middle of this lesson, modify it so that it can handle a collection of scheduled reports. |
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2. Choose Add-Ins ¦ Report Designer from the Visual Basic menu. Using Crystal Reports, create a new report based on the biblio.mdb database that ships with Visual Basic. Design the report so that it retrieves only authors from the Authors table whose last name begins with M. Open and print the report using the code on the CD. |
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3. Using exercise 2, and if you have access to Microsoft Access 95 or 97, create an Access report using Report Wizard. Open and print the report using the code on the CD. |
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