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Cr stal Report with DataSet and DataTable using C#

By Rehan Ahmad Abbasi | 8 Sep 2008 Crystal Report with Dataset and DataTable using C#
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Introduction
In my previous article, I described how to create Crystal Report with Oracle Views. In this article, I am going to demonstrate how to create a Crystal Report with ADO.NET D aa T a b l e . You will find this article very interesting, simple and easy to understand. This article needs basic knowledge of .NET. Note: Please vote for this article.

Background
No background knowledge is needed for this article. This article is very simple and just requires very basic knowledge of .NET. But I recommend reading my previous article as well, though it has no direct relation with this article.

Using the Code

Now enough of theory, we will move to our point. So here we go... I have created 2 sample tables for this project. Scripts of tables are as follows, with some sample insert query to have sample data.
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First of all, create a project in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and name it C

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Then create a form as f m M a i n and add a Crystal report viewer control to this form. Add a Reference to S e m . D aa . Oa c l e C l i e n.

Step 1: Adding A DataSet and DataTable

Add a D aa S e to your Project and name it as m D aa S e , as follows:

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Now add a D aa T a b l e to m D aa S e:

Now add columns to your D aa T a b l e as given below in the image. Your column name and d aa p e should be the same as that in your database.

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Add a C al epo o he p ojec and name i a m _ r p t .

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Choose Using the report wi ard.

Choose the data source from project data

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Choose the columns to be displa ed on the report.

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Now our designing part is complete.

S ep 3: Binding O r Repor

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Below is the C# code to bind our report to the d a t a s o u r c e .

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