>No, but I wish that I had known about it.
>I wasted a lot of time bouncing around the web and rolling my own solutions ad hoc till I finally developed a useful framework.
>I'm doing all my new work with SSRS, but I still have a lot of CR's out there.
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>Just a couple of hours ago one of my largest CR clients asked me if I can create a .PDF from a CR asynchronously from a Winform app (VS 2013). The app is doing it synchronously now and he'd like to save that few seconds because the volume has increased materially.
>I've never tried multi-threading with CR or with anything else.
>Does your book cover that?

The title of the book emphasized Crystal, but there were chapters on typed datasets, ADO.NET (including some asynch support), data access layers, etc.

To answer your question, it didn't cover that full scenario as an example. There were code samples across a series of chapters that maybe could come close to what you're describing.

Do you have a set of support classes for your access to Crystal?