VB Forum / Crystal Report / August 2005

Having problems with giving new connection
data to the crystal report at runtime.
At design time ( I use crystal reports designer)
I am using a system DSN to

I've created an app that uses crystal XI for reporting. I wan't to
deploy it to a customer of mine. This is free, right? I mean that the
customer doesn't have to buy a serial from somewhere for the reports...
And how do I get a serial for this kind of deployment?

I am new to reporting and would like to incorporate Crystal Reports in
my VB based app. I have one question to which I could not find answers
on the Crystal Reports website, and I would appreciate it if anyone
knew the answer:

When a CrystalReportViewer application created with Visual Studio 2003
runs a Business Objects logo appears on the top right side.
How can this logo be disabled or replaced with the logo of the company
we are creating the application for?

I have a VB.NET application that uses SQL server and Crystal.
Basically what I am trying to do is have a report in which the user can
select which fields will appear on the report.  I have everything set
up correctly and working in a small sample project.  I attempted to

I'm new to Crystal and I'm not really sure on what the best/easiest
method would be to accomplish my task.  I'm using VB.NET and Crystal
XI.  Basically, I have a SQL server db that has many different tables.
To keep it simple, lets say I'm using only 2 tables.  I want to build a

I use vb.net to preview the report (it is designed by cyrstal report),
and there is "X" button on the left hand side of "refresh", when I mouse
on"X" button , it said "close current view"
However, as i press it, no response, My client complaint that it make them

I have suddenly lost my drilldowns and I don't know why.  I have a VB6
project that uses the ocx and has been working well in testing for a while.  
I am using CR 8.5 and the following code.  My report works fine in the
Designer but not in my project.  Can anyone give me an idea ...

With either Crystal X or XI, is there an ability, the way there used to
be with Crystal way back when, to create some sort of executable for
non-Crystal users to run a Crystal report on their desktop? I know I
can run it through Visual Studio, but I'm looking for an even simpler

Every month I take the Crystal (8.5) reports that our accounting dept
uses and manually export them into an ODBC database where they gets
further sliced and diced & turned into a report for our regulating
body.  It's a pain in the bum, and totally unnecessary, because

would like to find out how to launch a Crystal Report form a vb6 or
legacy form.
I have nio idea where to start.  I would simply like to use a button to
call a script to launch a report in crystal reports viewer.

I use barcode 39 very well, However, it seems that cannot read "space"
e.g 123(space)459
So, any character I need to replace and make the barcode reader can read it
???

I am trying to convert to XI (We NEED to be able to print pictures... )
The viewer OCX works O.K. and the print button attached to this prints the
details. However, when I use the printout method nothing happens (no dialog
window, no print).

VB.Net 2003 and CR.Net that is bundled with it.
To handle multi-lingual applications, I have to extract and replace values
in TextObject of reports.
For most objects I have no problem.

I have a ASP.NET application which uses Crystal Reports installed on a
web server.  Originally I developed it all using the version of Crystal
Reports that came with VS.NET.  Now I have been using Crystal Reports
10 Developers Edition.  I want to re-install my application on this ...