Crystal Reports Viewer and ReportDocument component

[NatHunter]

I am migrating VB6 apps to .NET. I want to add a new (strongly typed) crystal report to my project - I obtained a copy of Brian Bischoff's Excerpts for crystal and .NET, but have run into a problem before getting past page 9 which is about viewing your first noddy report!

I have added a crystal report viewer and created a test report in the project, but when I add a ReportDocument component, there is no prompt for which report to use as is supposed to be the case. There is also no mention of my strongly-typed report in the reportsource dropdown in the ReportDocument object.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why .NET is not acting as it says it should when I add a ReportDocument component?

Cheers

Paul

 

[rana77]

hi adamsp,

use Load Method of report document to specify report file name.

cheers
Lalit Rana

 

[NatHunter]

Thanks for the reply.

I can use load to load a report from a seperate file into the crystal report object and that works fine.

I can't work out how to use a strongly-bound crystal report in vb.net. I can add it to the project but am not sure how to make reference to it.

Paul