Designing Crystal Report at VB runtime ?
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Is there anyway we can design crystal report at VB.NET runtime? I've been doing research about it but couldn't find anyone doing it. If you know a website where I can buy it, please help. Thanks John
it is possible, but is neither easy, nor cheap. do research on the RDC tool within Crystal. I worked with a group of people who had a .net web app create reports, with both data and formatting done on the fly. No rpt file was ever created on the server. However, with crystal, licensing will bite you in the ass. If you expect to have more than 50 concurrent connections, expect to spend well over $100,000 I should also say that it has been 1.5 years since i've done anything with crystal, and some of what i just said may have changed. I believe we were using 8.5 or crystal 9 at the time. Have you looked into using Reporting Services[^] from Microsoft? I would suggest using RS over Crystal any day. Only misleading thing about RS is that if you have your web server on one box, and sql on another (as you should), you will need 2 SQL server licenses. SQL Standard is fine if you are fine with windows auth for security, otherwise, you will need at least one of the licenses to be Enterprise. hope this helps more than it confuses :~ Levi Rosol Blog By Levi[^]