>>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?
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>The title of the book emphasized Crystal, but there were chapters on typed datasets, ADO.NET (including some asynch support), data access layers, etc.
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>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.
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>Do you have a set of support classes for your access to Crystal?

Yes, I use typed-datasets and I have some methods that accept the dataset, datatable and the report name and create the .pdf.
I can segregate that out pretty easily once I figure out how do the multi-threading.
It's probably about time that I learned that anyway.