1. Crystal Reports Programming In Visual Basic.NET

2. © 2001 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 13 2 Crystal Reports Gallery contains "experts" to guide you in creating standard reports, forms and even mailing labels Can publish reports on Windows Form or on Web Forms Create and Display a Report –Add a form to the project –Add a Report Designer –Design the Report Template –Add a CrystalReportViewer control to a form –Connect the control to the template –Call the report form from the main form

3. © 2001 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 13 3 Add New Crystal Report Item Project menu, Add New Item,Choose Crystal Report Name the template

4. © 2001 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 13 4 Crystal Report Gallery Usually the easiest way to create a report!

5. © 2001 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 13 5 Standard Report Expert Wizard - First Screen

6. © 2001 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 13 6 Standard Report Expert Wizard - First Screen (cont.)

7. © 2001 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 13 7 Standard Report Expert Wizard - Selecting Fields

8. © 2001 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 13 8 Crystal Reports Report Designer with the Layout Created

9. © 2001 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 13 9 Adding the Report to a form Add a CrystalReportViewer control to a form Prefix - rpt ReportSource Property: set to the template Anchor Property: –Set for all 4 edges so that the control will resize if the form is resized In the main form add a button or a menu option to invoke the report form

10. © 2001 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 13 10 Final Report