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[campagnolo1]

Greetings everyone,

I have been on a quest to figure out how to serve up several Crystal Reports in a web browser to eliminate the need for every user to have a CR viewer installed on their machine. Obviously, CR server would be a top candidate, but because of the top price it is out of the question. Having done websites before I figure there has to be a way to serve these reports up and also have them auto-refresh in certain intervalls. I have VWD 2010 Express which unfortunately doesn't have the CR Viewer plugin any more. So my question to the forum is this: does anybody know of an open source solution to my problem or can someone give me a hint as to go about a DIY solution.

Thanks in advance for your contributions,

Chris

PS: My apologies if this is not the right forum for my question.

 

[CoSpringsGuy]

http://kenhamady.com/bookmarks.html#web

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[campagnolo1]

Thanks for the link. I checked out the solutions Ken points out and a couple of them were quite affordable. Still, being the thrifty guy that I am (some call me cheap), I decided to pursue trying to come up with something on my own. I downloaded VS2010 and went to town. Now I have a few questions about VS that are Crystal related. Should I start a new thread in a different forum (which one?) or should I keep going here?

Thanks,

Chris