Ken’s Quick Reference to Crystal Reports in VB

Crystal Report 9 is a very handy application which will provide you with comprehensive functionality to design, visualize, explore as well as deliver some imposing reports within a very user friendly environment. We have an old program installed in 400 computers. This was made in vb6 +crystal reports 9. Today we have got many calls from clients who can´t export to pdf, they have been doing this since 2010. To create a crystal report using the Visual Project follow these steps:. Create a new project in the Visual Studio Project. Select the project from the Solution Explorer option. M3 chip tablet driver download. Select Reporting option from the Add New Item. Choose the Crystal Report Template and type a name. Click on the Add button and Crystal Report Gallery. To create a crystal report using the Visual Project follow these steps:. Create a new project in the Visual Studio Project. Select the project from the Solution Explorer option. Select Reporting option from the Add New Item. Choose the Crystal Report Template and type a name. Click on the Add button and Crystal Report Gallery will open. Your crystal report is ready.

(Updated for Crystal XI, but still covering the older versions)

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Don't waste time trying to figure out how to launch and control your Crystal Reports from Visual Basic. Depending on your version of Crystal, there may be 4 different sets of syntax, and the commands aren’t always well documented. This is especially true when it comes to passing recordsets to a report. These short documents, with simple code examples, will give you a clear overview of your options. It assumes that you already know how to create a VB application, and how to use Crystal Reports. (Note that you must have the Developer Edition of Crystal Reports to do any VB integration.)
Included is working source code for compiling your own very simple Crystal Reports Desktop Viewer. The viewer will let you select a report from any directory and run the report, without installing Crystal Reports!
The VB techniques explained include the three most popular ways to launch reports:
1) The simple OCX (free with VB 6).
2) The original Automation Server.
3) The most powerful Report Designer Component (RDC) used in versions 9, 10 and 11.

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**If you are using VB.NET you should get my Quick Reference to Crystal in VB.NET
You will learn:

The minimum components and references required in your project.
The objects and minimum code needed to launch an existing report.
How to Connect to the server in your application before launching SQL based reports.
How to Export to the most common formats
How to pass Active Data from the application to the report.
How to control Subreport features within your reports
How to override and control the following settings in your report, using VB commands:
Selection Formula
Groups
Sorts
Formula Fields
Parameter prompts

Also included:

Common problems and solutions for formulas, parameters
Web based and other resources for more detailed study

Active Data (passing a recordset to a report) is one of the most confusing aspects of using Crystal Reports. I will explain the different ways to create a report that can use Active Data, and the syntax for passing the recordset to the report.
The zip file contains:

Crystal Report 9 For Vb6 Portable File

1) The Quick Reference material in PDF format.
2) 10 simple VB projects that illustrate the material (based on VB6 and Crystal Reports v8 / v9 Developer Editions).

hi,

i have just migrated from CR8.5 to CR9.

now i want to run/display Crystal Report 9 on client machine without installing it there.

so, which .dll required for this situation?

Crystal Report 9 For Vb6 Portable Key

thanks,
krunal

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You need to install the 'Crystal Reports Runtime Engine' from the following address: '>here

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You need to install the 'Crystal Reports Runtime Engine' from the following address: '>here

Download and install either the 32-bit or 64-bit depending on your OS and your Application you are trying to run. This will have to be done on each client machine that wishes to run your application.

You can't just include the Crystal Reports dlls to make your application work. You'll have to investigate further into either windows installer setup projects or installshield setup projects to achieve something 'similar' but not the same. Crystal Reports has to be installed via the 'Runtime Engine' downloads or Merge Modules. Merge Modules requires a setup project of the types listed previously to 'install' the crystal reports dll's.

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You can't just drop the Crystal Reports dlls into your bin folder. You need to install the Crystal Reports redistributable that is for your version of Crystal Reports as it make registry entrys and such. If you are using the version bundled with Visual Studio there are redistributables located in the Visual Studio folders. If you are using the Standalone version, they will be in the Crystal Reports Directories.