Tuesday, August 28, 2007 #

Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS kick my Axx - Part V

It's been a while since I posted my last Crystal Reports rant and I've been walking around this sucker on egg shells because I've made multiple xsd changes and gotten them into the reports without having it puke and die on me like it normally does... so that's a good thing.

The bad thing is that all of a sudden I'm getting a very weird "Page header or footer longer than a page" message.

So I go to Google and I find others that have had the same problems and have resolved it by making sure the print spooler was on, or by making sure they had a default printer, or by tweaking the header and footers just a bit. Gotta love the scientific nature of a process like that.

In looking closer at the report I inherited, although it's been working just fine for literally years, I wonder about the layout. Instead of unique "Details" sections for each of the 14! subreports, each of them is inside a "Footer"... hmmm... and since Crystal reports is complaining about the header or footer being too big, I wonder if I just all of a sudden hit the magic limit on something and that big iron trap hidden under the leaves jumped up and bit me in the rear.

Being a good sport and reasonably patient, Crystal Reports not withstanding, I decided to 'move' each of those subreports into their own "Details" section. Move being a somewhat ambiguous term in this regard, because even though the label can be copy and pasted, it still has to be moved into place, and then the subreport itself cannot be moved. It has to be deleted from the one and inserted into the other, and then all the settings have to be set on it, and placement.

Ok one down, 13 to go, and oops... something isn't working... pull those files out of version control and do it again. One down... umm.. back to version control

This time I got it, but wait, now I get "Crystal Reports Engine logon fail" What the heck is that? ... back to Google and find some kind soul at ASPAlliance has written about this. I verify the database and woohoo... I'm still 1/14 of the way... hmm... wonder if I uncomment the one that is causing the problem if that will work now that I verified... nope, still a problem.

Ok on to number 2... Silverlight is *much* more fun :)

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Posted On Tuesday, August 28, 2007 4:28 PM | Feedback (1)

Silverlight Cream for August 28, 2007

MSDN Silverlight Developer Center; Basic Collision Detection by Bill Reiss; Live ID Beta support for Information Cards with CardSpace
MSDN Silverlight Developer Center
I got an announcement about this in an email from Microsoft yesterday... looks like a great bookmark!
Basic Collision Detection
Bill Reiss approaches a subject many have asked about - collision detection in Silverlight.
Windows Live ID adds Beta support for Information Cards with Windows CardSpace!
Not Silverlight at all, but hopefully will resolve some problems I'm currently having with Live ID... very cool.

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Posted On Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:43 AM | Feedback (0)
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