Re: CR questions, and TY to Bill
From: William \(Bill\) Vaughn (billvaRemoveThis_at_nwlink.com)
Date: 08/06/04
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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 19:46:11 -0700
Ah, I would advise to use Reporting Services... not the Dark Crystal.
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"Patrick" <psully@nospam.eatel.net> wrote in message
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> Now I got my report form to load without a licensing error, thanks to Bill
> (William Vaughn).
>
> But I keep getting the error "can't load data" when I start the form.
>
> In my delvelopment system it mostly all worked from day one, but moving it
> to another machine involved installing MDAC, MSDE, the .NET Framework, and
> learning how to load a database on another sqlserver instance. And I
thought
> installing Visual Foxpro apps was a hassle.
>
> In the Crystal reports visual designer for the VS.NET IDE, you can only
set
> the datasource property for a database that's been attached (binded?) to
a
> specific data provider. In fact, I could not even get the tables to load
in
> my main form with MSDE on the target system until I 'attached' the
database
> to MSDE on that machine. Is that normal?
>
> Now evidently, the crystal reports control is looking for the database in
> the wrong place, too. I've been reading the stuff on CR in the VS.NET
> documentation, and it's really fragmented and the clearest code I found
for
> telling the control how to find the data was written in C#! I figured this
> out because the statements all end with ";". It sure wasn't labled as C#
> code. What is the equivalent VB code for the C# keyword, "using"?
>
> It seems like I should be able to set the values with
> Crystalreports1.SetDatabaseLogon("user","pwd", "server", "datasource") in
> the form load event. But I get an error that says "setdatabaselogon" is
not
> a member of crystalreports1.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction for some programmatic control
of
> CR controls in VB? I found some CR newgroups but it seems like there's not
> much traffic in those.
>
>
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