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vb.net change crystal report textobject

In vb6 I was able to change the textobject value how do u do it in vb.net

this is what I have

Dim myreport As ReportDocument
myreport= New CrystalReport1
myreport.Load("..\CrystalReport1.rpt")

I tried

Dim textobject As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.TextObject
textobject = report1.ReportDefinition.ReportObjects.Item("Text1")

and if I look at the variable textobject it seems to pull in the currecnt value, but I can't figure out how to change it

I even did

textobject = report1.ReportDefinition.ReportObjects.Item("Text1")
textobject.tet = "Hello"

and nothing happened

any ideas??

Mike McCracken

How about

report1.ReportDefinition.ReportObjects.Item("Text1").text = "Hello"

mlmcc

bear23

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no that doesn't work.

When I put my cursor over that line it says

'Property item is read-only'

I was able to do it with vb6 what is the equivulent in vb.net

bear23

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also note that this works

I got this off of a old forum here:

Dim myReport As CrystalReport1
myReport = New CrystalReport1
Dim myTextObject As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.TextObject
myTextObject = myReport.Section1.ReportObjects.Item("Text1")
myTextObject.Text = "New Text"
CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = myReport

this works great but not using

Dim myreport As ReportDocument

and see I need this because I am using

myreport.Load("..\CrystalReport1.rpt")

so I need to have
Dim myreport As ReportDocument

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Mike McCracken

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