Crystal Reports Help

I am new to Cyrstal Reports for VS 2010 and I am totally lost. I want to create a report without using dataset. My application uses a database connection variable to connect to database and never uses dataset or so at all.

Code:

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dim dbconnection as oledb.connection
//then open hte connection etc.

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Is there away to tell cyrstal report to use this connection? In VB6, i used to create reports using Data Report by first using data source to design the report. THen at run time, i would direct the connection to something like the above and used to work awesome.

How do I tell crystal reports which connection to use and pass on my own query?

Check this out http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/For...-509c57f3cc35/

When you create the report, you can select the database. This will make designing the report easy. At runtime you can use any datasource you want as long as the tables/fields match.

BTW - I don't understand how your application uses a database but uses no datasets.