How to run (already made)crystal report 7.2 in VB.net

[himanshum]

Dear all

I am having problem in calling and running the crystal report made in version 7.2 in my VB.net program.
VB.net opens crsytal report 8.5 and is not able to call my reports.
And I have to rebuild all my reports.
I wonder there may be a better way of calling these reports.

I request you to please guide me in this regards as soon as possible.
Please send me the code.

Thanks in advance.

Regards
Himanshu Madan.

 

[ruthaustin]

http://www.aspalliance.com/articles/CrystalReportVSNet.aspx

This webpage is the best tutorial I have found. It sounds like you can use the first example. I used my CR 8 report inside a page this way, so I'm not positive about 7.2, but give it a try.

I found that when I tried to include my CR 8 by just right clicking on the solution and adding in an existing "item" (so I could export it to a PDF file like they did in their example), it would try to upgrade it to 9.1 and crash .NET. So, I recreated my stupid report.

Let me know if you solve the best of both worlds, hope this helps,
Ruth Lamy