In the interest of full disclosure, I need to point out that last year I became the project lead of DataVision
when the original developer, Jim Menard, decided to put his time into other things. To be fair though, I was
using DataVision for at least two years prior to that and liked it a great deal before I ever got involved.
For our needs in RePortal, we??™ll just really be using the ability of DataVision to be integrated
into our application. However, we??™ll also need a sample report to play with, and that is
included in the downloadable code for this book. DataVision stores its reports in a straightforward
XML format, so you can always edit them by hand, but using the designer is definitely a
better idea. Actually, using the designer is a topic for a whole other book (hey, Mr. Editor, are
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3. In the original Star Trek series episode ???The Gamesters of Triskelion,??? the first provider bid 300 quatloos
for the newcomers, meaning the Enterprise crew. This episode featured three glowing disembodied
brains (I??™m not making this up!), sitting on a domed table, who basically spend all their time making
wagers about the outcome of battles between various alien species, our intrepid band of explorers
among them.
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