The Report Designer

Like the original Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET product, Crystal Reports 10 provides an integrated report designer inside of the Visual Studio .NET development environment. This edition of the report designer enables you to create and edit reports from within the comfort of Visual Studio .NET. Figure 29.1 shows the report designer in action.

Figure 29.1. This is a report being designed in the Visual Studio .NET Report Designer.

To add a new report to a project, select Add New Item from the Project menu. Select Crystal Reports from the Add New Item dialog. The filename you use here maps to the ...

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