I am using the crystal report packa

[bardboy]

I am using the crystal report packaged with the release version of vb.net. I have a field in the database which is a text field with HTML tags (<strong>, <italic> etc.) I have placed these fields in a report which is printed from a winform. If I mark the textformat property to crHTMLtext, I get a query engine error when I try to open the report. When marked as crStandardText, I get no error but the tags appear in the text (hello <strong> world </strong>).

I submitted this question on the 'formula' forum, and someone tried it out in vb6 and did not have the same problem. Is this a vb.net bug?
Haim Katz

 

[bardboy]

For those interested, I received this answer from CR Tech Support:

Unfortunately, HTML text interpretation option for the Crystal Reports
control in Visual Studio .NET was not implemented even though the
documentation that was created for this control states that the option
does exist. It also looks like this option was not removed from the code
either.

You may want to try using the RTF text interpretation as this also will
recognize html tags.

Hopefully, we will be able to include this feature in a future patch or
release.