| The quiz questions and activities are provided for your further understanding of the current hour's topics. Quiz | 1: | What are the three application development scenarios Crystal Reports 9 is targeted toward? | | A1: | Crystal Reports 9 is targeting toward three scenarios: Desktop Application, Simple Web Applications, and Advanced Web Applications. | | 2: | What are the three components that compose the Report Designer Component? | | A2: | The three components that compose the Report Designer Component are the Visual Basic Report Designer, the Object Model, and the ActiveX Report Viewer. | | 3: | What development platforms is Crystal Reports 9 targeting for Web applications? | | A3: | For Web-based applications, Crystal Reports 9 is targeting the COM (ASP), .NET (ASP.NET), and Java (JSP) development platforms. |
Activities To ensure that you are comfortable with the topics discussed in this hour, try to perform the following tasks: Build a Visual Basic application that prompts the business user with an InputBox for the name of the country he would like to see data for. Then display a report based on the Xtreme Sample Database's Customer table in the ActiveX report viewer. Build a simple .NET Application that displays one of the Crystal Reports 9 sample reports on the Web in HTML format. Create a Java application that creates a report on-the-fly based on one of the sample reports' data sources and adds three fields, then display that report in the Java Interactive Report Viewer. |