Alternatives to Crystal Reports? 1

[Amesville]

Hi Folks

The application I've been working on for a year is nearly finished, but I'm still having trouble with Crystal Reports misbehaving and not performing as I tell it to. I'm using the CrystalReportsViewer control from VB.NET 2008, and I've already narrowed down what I should be doing to force it to print my reports in Landscape Mode. Here's an example of the code I'm using to sent the report to print:

        'dtWBLoads is a populated Data Table that provides values for the report
        'crvLoads is a CrystalReportViewer object
        'Waybill1 is a Crystal Report 

        Dim LoadsReport As New Waybill1

            'Send Load Page to print
            crvMTYs.Visible = False
            LoadsReport.PrintOptions.PrinterName = objPS.PrinterName
            LoadsReport.PrintOptions.PaperOrientation = CrystalDecisions.Shared.PaperOrientation.Landscape
            LoadsReport.SetDataSource(dtWBLoads)
            crvLoads.ReportSource = LoadsReport
            crvLoads.Dock = DockStyle.Fill
            crvLoads.BringToFront()
            crvLoads.Visible = True
            crvLoads.PrintReport()

This works fine to print the report, but it is completely inconsistent as to whether the format will be portrait or landscape. The report itself is designed in Landscape mode. However half the time it prints in Portrait anyway. Since these reports are the important part of what my program does this problem is a non-starter.

Please, please help - is there some way I can force Crystal Reports to print these reports properly?

Thanks

 

[Amesville]

Oh, and as the subject line reads, if not is there some sort of alternative I can use instead?

 

[jebenson]

Instead of using the report viewer to print, print directly from the report document:

LoadsReport.PrintToPrinter(1, False, 0, 0)


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[Amesville]

Woo Hoo! That seems to have done the trick! THANK YOU!!!!!