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VB.NET Crystal Reports

for Beginners
Start your first VB.NET Crystal Reports
.

All programming samples related to

Crystal Reports in this tutorial are derived
from the following database, namely
"crystaldb". Prior to commencing this
tutorial, it is highly recommended that you
familiarize yourself with the structure of
the database. For your convenience, you
may click on the provided link to access
the detailed Database Structure.

Open Visual Studio .NET and select a new

Visual Basic .NET Project.

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Create a new Crystal Reports for Product

table from the above database crystalDB.
The Product Table has three fields
(Product_id,Product_name,Product_price)
and we are showing the whole table data
in the Crystal Reports.

From main menu in Visual Studio select

PROJECT-->Add New Item . Then Add
New Item dialogue will appear and select
Crystal Reports from the dialogue box.

Microsoft .Net
Framework
Select Report type from Crystal Reports Tutorials
gallery. VB.NET
Language
Basics Tutorials
VB.NET
Program Flow
Control
Tutorials
VB.Net
Graphical User
Interface

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Accept the default settings and click OK.
VB.NET Crystal
Reports
Next step is to select the appropriate Tutorials
connection to your database. Here we are VB.NET
going to select OLEDB connection for Communications
Tutorial
SQL Server
VB.NET
ADO.NET
Select OLE DB (ADO) from Create New Tutorial
Connection. ADO.NET Data
Providers
Tutorial
VB.NET
ADO.NET
Dataset Tutorial
ADO.NET
DataAdapter
and Dataset
VB.NET
ADO.NET
DataView
Tutorial
VB.NET
Select Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Remoting
SQL Server . Tutorial
VB.NET XML
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Next screen is the SQL Server

authentication screen . Select your Sql
Server name , enter userid , password
and select your Database Name . Click
next , Then the screen shows OLE DB
Property values , leave it as it is , and click
finish.

Then you will get your Server name under

OLEDB Connection from there select
database name (Crystaldb) and click the
tables , then you can see all your tables
from your database.

From the tables list select Product table to

the right side list .

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Click Next Button

Select all fields from Product table to the

right side list.

Click Finish Button. Then you can see the

Crystal Reports designer window . You
can arrange the design according your
requirements. Your screen look like the
following picture.

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Now the designing part is over and the

next step is to call the created Crystal
Reports in VB.NET through Crystal
Reports Viewer control .

Select the default form (Form1.vb) you

created in VB.NET and drag a button and
CrystalReportViewer control to your
form.

Select Form's source code view and put

the code on top.

Imports CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine

Put the following source code in the

button click event

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Full Source VB.NET

Imports CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.O
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.C
Dim cryRpt As New ReportDocument
cryRpt.Load("PUT CRYSTAL REPORT PATH HERE\Crys
CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = cryRpt
CrystalReportViewer1.Refresh()
End Sub
End Class

NOTES:

cryRpt.Load("PUT CRYSTAL REPORT

PATH HERE\CrystalReport1.rpt")

The Crystal Reports is in your project

location, there you can see
CrystalReport1.rpt . So give the full path
name of report here.

After you run the source code you will get

the report like this.

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Hope this tutorial help you to create your

first Crystal Reports.

Next > VB.NET Crystal Reports from multiple

tables

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