crviewer from Crystal Reports 8 and VB.NET

[RobertMottram]

I am using VB.NET from Visual Studio.NET. I am trying to display a report which was created in Crystal report 8. If I use the VB.NET report viewer I get a message about the database connection type not valid for the new version of the viewer. For this reason I have used the viewer which comes with crystal reports 8. This now displays the report, but when I click on the buttons in the viewer most of them don't work. For example next/last page, print, export etc.

This makes it more than useless!!!!!


Hope someone can help

Rob

 

[mulchman]

I Use both CR8 and ASP.NET.

I load the CR8 reports into ASP.NET and set them to the crystal report Viewer in ASP.NET.

ALso, I export the CR8 reports in ASP.NET to WOrd and PDF for viewing and printing.

THe question you have to ask is where do you want to go and want do you want to use since there are different ways to use CR8 in ASP.NET.