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Which version of .Net have you installed? Have you also installed CR for .Net?
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Which version of .Net have you installed? Have you also installed CR for .Net?

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Thanks for that migration info. I'm almost close. I'm using windows forms, is using crystalreportsviewer the best way to launch and view report in windows forms? Or are there any other optimal way to do it?
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Thanks for that migration info. I'm almost close. I'm using windows forms, is using crystalreportsviewer the best way to launch and view report in windows forms? Or are there any other optimal way to do it?

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I have crystal reports in a VB6 application. I used the upgrade wizard to upgrade the whole application. Now &nbsp;a large percentage of the upgrade I can use, and that is good. Because I don't have time. But I noticed the crystal reports (*.rpt) have been upgraded to dsr, dsx, dca files. And opening one of them showed me hex values. <br />
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So..<br />
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I add the crystal report in vb6 manually to the solution and there I can see the report. I update the database of the report and still good, I notice no fields lost in the report. But it prompt me to save or upgrade it so when I said yes, it produced dsr dsx dca files! What happened here and if those are the upgrade report files, how do I use those reports like launch them or call them in my VB/C# code?
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I have crystal reports in a VB6 application. I used the upgrade wizard to upgrade the whole application. Now  a large percentage of the upgrade I can use, and that is good. Because I don't have time. But I noticed the crystal reports (*.rpt) have been upgraded to dsr, dsx, dca files. And opening one of them showed me hex values. 

So..

I add the crystal report in vb6 manually to the solution and there I can see the report. I update the database of the report and still good, I notice no fields lost in the report. But it prompt me to save or upgrade it so when I said yes, it produced dsr dsx dca files! What happened here and if those are the upgrade report files, how do I use those reports like launch them or call them in my VB/C# code?

Upgrade VB6 crystal reports to .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.

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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.

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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,