VB Forum / Crystal Report / January 2004

I am just starting to use Crystal Reports for VisualBasic.net 20002. I got a
lot of dubs and non manual. The documentation on VS.NET is really bad
Where can i find some free maual???
Some specific questions,

Have I got this right ?
Are there are only two real distribution methods for Crystal 9.0 -
Report Application Server and building it into an app using VS.NET ?
What happened to compiling it and distributing the tidy little viewer

i use crystal report to show a report. it is fine in design mode, but in
preview and browser can't view data, it is only show label and tool bar.  is
it about datasource premission problem?  (datasource is msde on local
machine, integrated security. data entry via aspx is fine.)

I have nine separate databases (companies) which contain inventory
items that are nearly identical.  I want to be able to generate a
report that will list all unique inventory items in numerical order.
Right now, if the list is limited to what is in company 1.  If company

Anybody knows what can I do to pass a parameter (a string) from a textbox on
the form to Crystal report?
Help me please.
Thanks

I'll simplify the problem from the actual setup but here is what I need.
I have a SQL database with 3 tables.
TABLE 1 EMPLOYEES with a NAME FIELD
TABLE 2 JOBS with a LABORCOST field

I have a complex and can't construct with a single SQL.
So I need to build a lot of temp tables and put the result
into a final temp table using VB code.
How can I make the crystal report to get the data from

I encountered a error "Creation feature not valid" when executing the
following code:
   Set m_Report = m_Application.NewReport
the reason is that i have not a "Creation API" license, but Is there

Happy New Year to All! :)
I have a question regarding data sources for crystal reports.
I am currently using C# as my programming language, crystal reports for
generating my reports and using MS Access for my data source.

I am new to Crystal report, I am facing a problem. While running my crystal
report application from another application with command line arguments
(WinExec ""), it displays an error message "Server has not yet been opened".
The same application will work independently without any ...

I'm a bit of a CR novice so excuse me if this is blindingly obvious...
I have a database with three tables.
Table 1 is a list of my customers (Includes customer number)
Table 2 is all the "widget type A" I have sold. (Includes customer