VB.Net 2003 - Loading BOXI report from Enterprise Repositry

[Tony Martin]

When I run Crystal Reports XI to do development work, I typically select "File","Open","Enterprise" - I enter my login cridentals and navigate down through the folders to the report I need. The report loads, I do my stuff and save it.

I am trying to write a vb app that will load a given report from a given path in the repositry, then save it to a local folder. Currentlry I do this manually through the Crystal Development app, and it get's painful when there's more than a few that need to be done!

Everything I have read involves telling the BusinessObjects Enterprise to do it, but the way ours is configured it will not export anything.

So I figure since it does work 100% with Crystal XI, that there was a way to tap into that, but so far I haven't gotten very far.

How do you call crystal from your app, load something from an enterprise repositry, then tell crystal to save it back somewhere new?

Has anyone done something like this before and is willing to share some info?
I'm using vb.net 2003