Category Archives: Code Examples

Display a Section only on the First Page in a Crystal Report

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Chris C

To display a section only on the first page but not on other pages right-click the section in question and choose Section Expert. Click the x-2 button to the right Suppress (No Drill down) and add the following formula: Now … Continue reading →

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Visual Cut Doesn’t Like to Waste Space

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Chris C

Just a heads up that Visual Cut is really picky about command line arguments.  Visual Cut does a bunch of stuff with Crystal Reports but in my current project it is just used to print reports on demand.  The printing … Continue reading →

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SQL Server Dependency Query

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Chris C

You’ve been staring at the SQL Server view vwCustomersGH for the past hour.  The view is part of a project you just started maintaining and like many views and stored procedures in the project you are sure it’s not being … Continue reading →

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NUnit Error “Attempted to access an unloaded AppDomain”

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Chris C

I was plagued by the above error but found a workaround, at least one that worked for me.  It’s a one line change to the NUnit config file.  Note, this the actual NUnit config file that is installed in C:Program … Continue reading →

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Upgrading Mini-Compressor to .NET 4.0 Notes Addendum

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Chris C

You can read part one at Upgrading Mini-Compressor to .NET 4.0 Notes post. One item that I feel has been neglected by Visual Studio is the Setup & Deployment projects.  There has been little improvements to them since Visual Studio … Continue reading →

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Starting Any Method in a New Thread Using .NET

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Chris C

The main problem I encountered was creating a function to accept any function pointer along with an unknown number of arguments.  I got around this problem using the ThreadStart and delegate() features in C# (.NET 3.5).  First off create your … Continue reading →

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