Quick Crystal Reports question....
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Hello everyone, I am working with VB.Net 2005, going to an Access 2003 database. I am creating a few (like 3 or 4) reports with the version of Crystal that ships with VS.Net 2005. I have a report coming up and all is ok I am just working to modify it and change the way that some things show, etc. I was looking on line and notice a tutorial for connecting a crystal report to a dataset. I am connecting straight to the database. What I am wondering is which is the best practice? I am only a few days into this so I don't want to get done with it and find out that I should have done it a different way. Thanks for your input.
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Hello everyone, I am working with VB.Net 2005, going to an Access 2003 database. I am creating a few (like 3 or 4) reports with the version of Crystal that ships with VS.Net 2005. I have a report coming up and all is ok I am just working to modify it and change the way that some things show, etc. I was looking on line and notice a tutorial for connecting a crystal report to a dataset. I am connecting straight to the database. What I am wondering is which is the best practice? I am only a few days into this so I don't want to get done with it and find out that I should have done it a different way. Thanks for your input.
hi, i don't understand properly what do you want (because of my poor english) if you want to learn how to Generate a Crystal Report without a Database then click http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/NoDBReport.asp or if you want to pass discrete parameters to the Crystal Reports then click http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/CrystalContrl.asp if your requirement is diffrent, then Please describe more simple way Hope this Helps
Rupesh Kumar Swami Software Engineer, Integrated Solution, Bikaner (India)
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Hello everyone, I am working with VB.Net 2005, going to an Access 2003 database. I am creating a few (like 3 or 4) reports with the version of Crystal that ships with VS.Net 2005. I have a report coming up and all is ok I am just working to modify it and change the way that some things show, etc. I was looking on line and notice a tutorial for connecting a crystal report to a dataset. I am connecting straight to the database. What I am wondering is which is the best practice? I am only a few days into this so I don't want to get done with it and find out that I should have done it a different way. Thanks for your input.
CCG3 wrote:
I am just working to modify it and change the way that some things show
What to show and in which way you want??
CCG3 wrote:
I am connecting straight to the database
if your work demands showing just full content of a table you can straightway do this..Otherwise if you have some specific query then you have to go for a typed Dataset(.xsd) to do this....populate the dataset with your query....make the Datasource of your report object to that Dataset.....
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