I new to programming. With limited knowledge I have done small application. But I want to use Crystal reports to view the reports. Can anyone help me to understand how to edit crystal reports, coz I need to change the view of the report. When trying to open in Visual studio installed with crystal reports , it is showing all 00's and FF's.
Please help me
use version 2012 for visual studio.
the patch for crystal report for visual studio is not out yet
here's the link Visual studio 2013 & crystal report
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I have developed vb.net desktop application using vb.net 2008 and ms-access database.
As to have dynamic image on crystal report, their is no Graphic Location option in vb.net 2008 crystal reports.
So as per search results, I installed vb.net 2010 and crystal reports supporting vb.net 2010.
but when i try to open crystal reports in vb.net 2010(which where created in vb.net 2008) , it has so many errors and .rpt file looks like following picture.
can anybody tell me why so ?
Please....!!!
I want to create a report with .rdlc, in this case i want to join some table and put the result in table on the rdlc file. I got confused, coz there is no place to put my query in the report.
Did i have to write some coding to create the report, so i can use the query?
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I suggest downloading SAP Crystal Reports (http://www.crystalreports.com/). If you are using SQL Server, use Business Intelligence to create the report through the server. The report viewer currently installed with Visual Studio is not user friendly.
Is there any possibility to make a report using MS ACCESS database files? I'm using Visual Studio 2013 however no reportviewer, just saw a source to download and have a toolbox for it however seems not working to make a new report since it lacks Report Wizard and Create a Report thus available only in paid.
Any alternatives to make simple but useful way of making a report?
A company developed a small web interface written in VB.net to query a database and produce reports. The interface uses CrystalDecisions.Shared library. In the code, it references this:
If rbExportType.SelectedValue = "PDF" Then
Dim sda As New DB2DataAdapter(cmd)
ReportName = "Reports/R002.rpt"
rpt.Load(Server.MapPath(ReportName), CrystalDecisions.[Shared].OpenReportMethod.OpenReportByTempCopy)
sda.Fill(ds.tbl_R002)
rpt.SetDataSource(ds)
rpt.SetParameterValue(0, ddDatabase.SelectedItem.Text)
ExporttoPDF()
Else
Now, the users have asked me to add a simple field to the report, Date. I've edited the query to pull this data, but when I run the report the Date field is not shown on the report. I'm assuming that the actual .rpt file has to be edited to include this field on the report.
When trying to edit Reports/R002.rpt in a text editor, there are just numbers/symbols.
How can I edit this .rpt file? The version of Visual Studio 2010 has past it's trial.
Visual Studio has (or had) a Crystal Reports editor built in. I couldn't find it just now in my Visual Studio 2012 install, so it's possible they dropped it in favor of their own Reporting Services platform, but I might just have missed it. If you can't find the editor in your Visual Studio 2010 copy, try downloading an older version of Visual Studio.
Update:
A quick Google search indicates that it's simply distributed separately now.
Here's the VS2012 version: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-35074
Here's the VS2010 version: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-7824
CrystalReports is a proprietary software and wouldn't be part of the default VS package.
And yes, in order to add a field to the report, you would have to edit the report itself. Its not that big of a deal, if you have a copy of the CrystalReport software.
I've recently made the switch from the Data Report to Crystal Reports 10. I've rewritten the reports our software uses and they are working fine in a nominal reports location.
I have heard that Crystal Reports can be compiled into a single executable file which can be called through vb.net, rather than loading the report from a location.
Has anyone had any experience of this who can perhaps help?
The Crystal Report itself can be compiled in with the applications executable, but I believe the client computer still requires the Crystal Reports runtime be installed as a prerequisite.
That is possible, I created a view of the data I need then create a crystal report form the view table to populate your report.