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VB .NET Making Reports / Printing Data

Hi,

My Application generates a lot of data in CSV (& some ASCII text) format. My Goal is to post process this Data & generate printable reports. I would like some suggestions with small samples or links. It would be really good if I could do some graphs also. I am prepared to use Crystal Reports as a solution but I cannot transform my data into Access or SQL server database. The data has to be read & saved always as CSV (I am short on resources and other parts of my application use this data so I cannot change the format)

Thanks,

--Yatharth
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If you can import the data into a Dataset from the CSV file, then you can associate the dataset to a Crystal Report. I think this is totally possible.
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Can you tell me how to do it ?

thanks,

--Yatharth
That would be a lot of steps and code...maybe let me know what you are capable of?

Do you know how to design a dataset?
Do you know how to read a CSV file's contents in code?
Do you know how to fill a dataset?
Do you know how to design a crystal report?
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natloz

Do you know how to design a dataset? NO

Do you know how to read a CSV file's contents in code? Yes

Do you know how to fill a dataset? Yes but only from a OleDbDataReader and SqlDataReader


Do you know how to design a crystal report? Yes

Thanks,

--Yatharth
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