Crystal Reports Web Service

[wooody1245]

I have an ASP.NET web service project that consists of a bunch of Crystal Reports. Everything works perfectly, but when I modify one of the reports I am forced to remove the old report, add in the new one and recompile. Is there a setting or modification to the project that I can do that will allow me to just drop in the new Crystal Report without having to recompile?

 

[hilfy]

No there's no way to do that if you're compiling the reports into the project. However, you could de-couple your reports from the project and load them from .rpt files. Replacing a file with a new version would then make the new version available to your app.

The code do this looks something like this (from VS2005 Help):

private ReportDocument customersReport;
string reportPath = Server.MapPath("Customers.rpt");
customersReport.Load(reportPath);
crystalReportViewer.ReportSource = customersReport;

-Dell




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