My new book, "Crystal Reports Encyclopedia, Volume I" is getting close to being finished. I'm hammering out the final chapter now. It should be ready for shipping in mid-June.

I've been debating whether to let people pre-order autographed copies of the book online. This lets the forum members be the first ones to get the book. You would get it before the stores even get their copies in stock. It would be helpful for me to get some money in advance to fund the printing of the book because I'll be doing a big print job for this one and it won't be cheap.

The only caveat would be that I will only ship within the US b/c international shipping fees are very expensive.

If you think you'd be interested in ordering one of the first copies of the book, please respond here. If this gets a lot of interest then I'll do it.

Oh yeah - Here is the Amazon.com link. They say it will be ready in September, but that is wrong. Unfortunately, they won't list the actual date till they get their copies in stock.
Crystal Reports Encyclopedia


One more thing - This is for Volume 1 only and it DOES NOT cover .NET 2005. The .NET programming model and how to integrate reports into your custom application will be covered in Volume 2 only. I expect Volume 2 to come out late this year (but I have no idea when since I haven't started working on it yet).

Edited by BrianBischof - 18 Apr 2007 at 5:26pm

Ok, pls let me know how it goes then.

Can you send me some pointers in creating a report from an stored procedure?, in the expert, when I add the sp, there are no fields to add, so the expert won't enable the next or the finish buttons.

No, could it be the structure of the stored procedure?, and you send the correct structure for an stored procedure to work with the report, please.

Do I have to make it return a table or something like that?

Thanks again.

Hi, Brian!

I am also interested in buying your book, but live in Finland... So, I'll have to wait until it is on Amazon.

Cheers,
EscApe