1. Crystal Report CSC 204 2.0 Rapid Application Development
Department of Statistics and Computer Science
Faculty of Applied Sciences
University of Sri Jayewardanepura

2. How to Start
Project  Add New Item  Crystal Reports  Add  Using the Report wizard  Standard  OK  Create New Connection  OLE DB (ADO)  Next  Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server  Next  Select Sql Server name , Database Name enter userid , password.  next  Select all fields Finish

3. Design
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4. Call the Crystal Reports in VB
Call the Crystal Reports in VB.NET through Crystal Reports Viewer control
Add CrystalReportViewer Controller Imports CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine Dim cryRpt As New ReportDocument cryRpt.Load(“Path\CrystalReport1.rpt") CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = cryRpt CrystalReportViewer1.Refresh()

5. App.config
<?xml version="1.0"?> <configuration > <startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy = "true"> <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/> </startup> </configuration>

6. Dim m_Report As New CrystalReport3
Form1.CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = m_Report
m_Report.VerifyDatabase()
m_Report.SetDataSource(ds.Tables(“csc”))

7. Multiple Tables Select all table from the table list
make relation between these selected tables (drag to the related field of the other table)

8. Reference Mastering VB.NET 2010 eBook www