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Crystal Reports Viewer in VB.Net 2005 using Crystal Reports 11 Release 2

Asked by: PantoffelSlippers

Hi Experts,

I'm having endless problems showing a Crystal Reports 11 report with VB.Net.  I learnt that my Release 1 is not compatible with Visual Studio 2005 so I downloaded Release 2.

My problem is that I don't even know how to add the Report Viewer!!!    According to the online help there should be a Crystal Reports node on the toolbox - there is not. I added the following file manually:
C:\Program Files\Business Objects\Common\3.5\managed\dotnet2\CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms.dll.

Now I have the report viewer in the toolbox but when I drag it onto the form it adds as a component like a Timer.  It shows in the bar below the form where the timers, ImageLists and ServiceControllers etc are shown and not as a control on the form!

Please help!
Thanks

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2007-05-24 at 12:56:56ID22593457
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by: mlmccPosted on 2007-05-24 at 16:52:07ID: 19153642

Check this long document.  Start on page 9.
http://www.businessobjects.com/global/pdf/dev_zone/VS2005_Walkthroughs.pdf

mlmcc

 

by: PantoffelSlippersPosted on 2007-05-24 at 22:30:31ID: 19154842

Thanks but my problem remains - the pdf suggests that I open the toolbox and expand the Crystal Reports node.  My toolbox does not have a Crystal Reports node.  I'm hoping someone knows what DLL/OCX to add manually.

Pls help!
Thanks

 

by: mlmccPosted on 2007-05-25 at 05:18:02ID: 19156170

Which edition of Crystal XI did you load?

mlmcc

 

by: PantoffelSlippersPosted on 2007-05-25 at 08:38:19ID: 19157769

Hi mlmcc,

I installed Crystal Reports XI Release 2 Developer.   I'm using Visual Studio 2005 (Express SP1).
I also have Dot Net Framework 2.0 installed.

Release 2 includes several VB.Net sample projects.  They work altough at design time, the Crystal Report viewer is also displayed in the bar at the bottom as I explained in my original post but  it is visible as a control on the form as well.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

by: mlmccPosted on 2007-05-25 at 09:06:52ID: 19157999

I don't know.  I am just starting to use VS.Net with Crystal and haven't built any projects yet.

mlmcc

 

by: PantoffelSlippersPosted on 2007-05-29 at 05:04:30ID: 19171610

OK it's working now:

It seems that Visual Studio EXPRESS was the problem.  Express did allow me to add the Report Viewer and required References and Imports manually.  I was able to write all the code required to set the connections, set selection formula and display the report etc - all the code executed without errors but the report viewer was not visible.

I uninstalled Crystal Reports and installed Visual Studio 2005 Professional with its built-in Crystal Reports components.  (I think it comes with version 10).  I then installed Crystal Reports 11 R2 and all worked perfectly well.  The report viewer control is now version 11.5 so VB is using version 11.

I'm very dissapointed that I couldnt get a report working using the Express version!

Thanks

 

by: Vee_ModPosted on 2007-06-03 at 12:57:21ID: 19204726

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