Run existing Crystal Report in VB.NET

[The_Grudge]

I have an existing Crystal report built (using Crystal Reports), and I want to be able to share it with other users who don't have Crystal installed. Actually, I want them to be able to run it themselves. I figure the best way to do that is to setup a little VB.NET app that calls the report and sends a few parameters like date, llocation - whatever.

I know there is a Crystal Reports "viewer" in VS 2010 but I'm not sure how to use it to run my report. I've found a couple of examples online but I must be missingsomething. This one in particular seems pretty good, but myVB doesn't like the code snippet highlighted in bold below:

Imports CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object,
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim cryRpt As New ReportDocument
cryRpt.Load("PUT CRYSTAL REPORT PATH HERE\CrystalReport1.rpt")
CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = cryRpt
CrystalReportViewer1.Refresh()
End Sub
End Class

Any help/insight is appreciated. Oh - and I'm putting in the actual path/file name for my file in the program - not using "PUT CRYSTAL PATH HERE" as shown above!

[wes4dbt]

You should post this in the Reporting Forum, also , what is the error?

[Hack]

Moved To The Reporting Section

[The_Grudge]

You should post this in the Reporting Forum, also , what is the error?

I had it loaded but I didn't save it. Basically, after pasting the code VS underlined a bunch of code with squiggly blue lines. Its like I was missing a reference or something.

[donicrizz]

if error like this in other pc

[digitalShaman]

I have an existing Crystal report built (using Crystal Reports), and I want to be able to share it with other users who don't have Crystal installed.

a note on this: your users will need to install the crystal runtime on their machines otherwise it will not work.

For your error: Have you dragged that crystal preview control (dont know the name now) onto your form and named it "CrystalReportViewer1"?


Edit: ahh, i see this is an old thread and the issue is probably already resolved....