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The format of a field. &nbsp;Like changing the decimal points or the negative sign for a formatted number. &nbsp;Things like that.
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The format of a field.  Like changing the decimal points or the negative sign for a formatted number.  Things like that.

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I am trying to change the formatting of fields based upon selection in a VB .NET program. &nbsp;How can I do this? &nbsp;The version of VB .NET is 2003.
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I am trying to change the formatting of fields based upon selection in a VB .NET program.  How can I do this?  The version of VB .NET is 2003.

Format Crystal Fields through VB.NET

The .NET Framework is not specific to any one programming language; rather, it includes a library of functions that allows developers to rapidly build applications. Several supported languages include C#, VB.NET, C++ or ASP.NET.

.NET Programming

Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application from SAP SE. It is used to graphically design data connections and report layouts from a wide range of data sources including Excel spreadsheets, Oracle, SQL Server databases and Access databases, BusinessObjects Enterprise business views, and local file-system information. Report designers can place fields from these sources on the report design surface, and can also deploy them in custom formulas (using either BASIC or Crystal's own syntax), which are then placed on the design surface. Crystal Reports also supports subreports, graphing, and a limited amount of GIS functionality.

Crystal Reports

Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is an object-oriented programming language implemented on the .NET framework, but also supported on other platforms such as Mono and Silverlight. Microsoft launched VB.NET as the successor to the Visual Basic language. Though it is similar in syntax to  Visual Basic pre-2002, it is not the same technology,