New to reporting

I need to create a windows project that produces reports.....that's all the info i was given by my project manager.

I have never done 'reports' other than getting data from a database into a grid or Excel.

I'd like to see some real-world samples if anyone has anything to share. Primarily, the manager wants the users to be able to select criterea via drop downs and then build a report, shoot it off to Crystal Reports and be done...

I have no clue what I'm doing now LOL...pretty sad since I've been programming for about 6 years now LOL

Do you know what the various selection criteria needs to be?

In a nutshell, no LOL
I wasnt really given a lot of info on this one :( The user apparantly wants to be able to specify what crieteria on the fly at run time. They basically want to generate a select statement on a windows form and then generate the results dynamically into a grid and then when the user wants, spit out the results to Crystal The biggest hurdle for me is lack of knowlege right now.

I've also never done dynamic sql...I rely solely on stored procs and a set number of columns in my grids ....geez...it's gonna be a long day haha

I do this kind of thing all the time on the project I'm on.

And, right now, based on what you have said, there is nothing you can do simply because you don't know what to do. You don't know what they want, so how are you supposed to give it to them?

You need to go back to your boss or go to your customer base and find out the specifics. Remind them that what they tell you they want is what they are going to get.

Once you have that, building the SQL is child's play.