opening and printing multiple crystal reports from a windows app

Question

I am going to be building a windows forms application that will essentially queue up and print off several crystal reports.

Really at this point, I just need some direction of a way to go forward with this. What is the best way to open a crystal report in a windows forms app? Are there libraries developed to assist with this etc?

I will be using C# .net 2.0 (probably...but maybe 4.0)

thanks for your time in advance.

Answer 1

All you need is the Crystal Reports RunTime . Or if you need to use an older version for some reason: http://resources.businessobjects.com/support/additional_downloads/runtime.asp#09

Then use the ReportDocument class. It has a Load and a Print method - it's pretty straight forward to use. There is also a report viewer that you can use to let the user view the report.