Blog tagged as Windows Server 2008

I was working with a Ripplestone client to get the software installed on a Vista PC and had a do a few things different than if this was XP Pro or Windows Server 2003.  The main differences were that Vista and Windows Server 2008 use IIS 7 and the .NET framework 1.1 is not installed by default.

While working on the next version of Ripplestone, a client had asked about if and how Ripplestone will handle wildcard parameters in a Crystal Report.  I had not used wildcard parameters for a while, so I decided to dig in and build some reports with wildcard parameters and see how they wo...

The Problem

There are times when building a Crystal Report that you want a field to be short and if the data is too long for the field for it to be truncated.  This works fine when developing the report in the Crystal Reports Designer, but when you publish the report to Ripplestone and run the...