Crystal Decisions' Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET Beta 2 Offers Seamless Reporting for Microsoft .NET Applications.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 2001 Microsoft Tech Ed Crystal Decisions Customized Version of Crystal Reports Selected by Microsoft for Seamless Integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. in Visual Studio .NET A suite of programming languages and development tools from Microsoft that supports the .NET environment. Upon its introduction in 2001, it included Visual C# and .NET versions of Visual Basic and Visual C++. See .NET. Crystal Decisions, an information infrastructure company that is a market leader in reporting, analysis and information delivery, today announced Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET Beta 2, delivering integration with Microsoft Corp.'s rapid application development (RAD (1) (Rapid Application Development) Developing systems incrementally and delivering working pieces every three to four months, rather than waiting until the entire project is programmed before implementing it. ) tool for building next-generation Web applications and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. . Endorsed by Microsoft as the reporting standard for Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Platform, this special edition of Crystal Reports will enable web developers to create interactive reports for any internal or external enterprise application they build without leaving the Visual Studio .NET environment. Each report can be integrated into the appropriate application with a click-of-the-mouse or through drag-and-drop. Users will be able to produce deployable applications and reports with the release of Beta 2 of Visual Studio .NET. "Microsoft's eight year strategic relationship with Crystal Decisions has always resulted in powerful value-add for customers and today's announcement once again confirms the strong commitment both companies have to delivering integrated world-class solutions," said Tom Button, vice president, Developer Tools at Microsoft Corp. "Crystal Decisions' integration with Visual Studio .NET provides developers with best-of-breed technologies to build powerful web applications." The powerful report designer integrates into Visual Studio .NET with the same look as Visual Studio, thereby leveraging the developers' web development and reporting skills for increased productivity. Reports can be presented in a highly graphical format and include interactive features such as text searching and drill-down on graphs or other data. Rich interactive reports can be shared over the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the through an XML web services model that enables enterprise customers or business partners to host an exposed report inside their own application. Any report can be delivered in rich client or thin client environment, or on any device for maximum flexibility. "The tight integration of Crystal Reports into Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Platform reflects a continuation of a long-standing strategic relationship that began in 1993 with the first incorporation of Crystal Reports in Visual Basic 3," said Tony Wind, vice president of product development at Crystal Decisions. "This latest collaboration ensures that developers will receive the power of Microsoft technology with industry-leading reporting technology in a single, seamlessly integrated package." Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET offers seamless integration within all of the managed languages of the Microsoft product, including Visual Basic, C# and Visual C(plus)(plus) with Managed Extensions. For More Information For more information on Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET visit the web site at www.crystaldecisions.com/net. Crystal Reports is sold in more than 40 countries worldwide and is available from a wide network of resellers and distributors, and the Crystal Decisions online store. For information on all Crystal Decisions products, phone 1-800-877-2340 (North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. ) or 1-604-681-3435 (International) or visit the Crystal Decisions web site at www.crystaldecisions.com. About Crystal Decisions Crystal Decisions, formerly Seagate Software Seagate Software was an international software corporation headquartered in Scotts Valley, California. It was a majority owned subsidiary of Seagate Technology, the largest independent disc drive and related components company in the world. , is a privately held Seagate company owned by a group of investors that include Silver Lake Partners Silver Lake Partners is a notable American private equity firm founded in 1999 and headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. It focuses its activities in the information technology industry. and Texas Pacific Group. Crystal Decisions is an information infrastructure company, which provides award-winning reporting, analysis, and information delivery solutions. The company's world-class products are used by millions of customers in thousands of companies worldwide and include Crystal Analysis, Crystal Enterprise, Crystal Reports and Holos Holos is an influential OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) product of the 1990s. Developed by Holistic Systems in 1987, the product remained in use until around 2004. Conception The Holos product succeeded an older generation of mainframe products such as System-W. . Crystal Decisions can be found on the Web at www.crystaldecisions.com. Crystal Decisions, Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise, Crystal Analysis, Holos and Seagate Info are either a registered trademark or trademark of Crystal Decisions Inc. Seagate is a registered trademark of Seagate Technology (company) Seagate Technology - A major manufacturer of hard disk drives, founded in 1979 as "Shugart Technology" by Alan F. Shugart and Finis Conner. That name is on the original patents for the 5.25" hard disk drive. , LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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