The Crystal Data Source interface can be implemented inside almost any type of application. You might want to create and internal data source, for instance, inside the same standard executable application that you are implementing the Report Designer Component or another of the Crystal Report development tools. See the "Visual Basic Solutions" chapter in the Crystal Reports Technical Reference Guide, or the Crystal Reports Developer's Help (CrystalDevHelp.chm) for more information on the other Crystal Reports development tools.. On the other hand, you could create an ActiveX DLL that did nothing except implement Crystal Data Source. Your ActiveX DLL then could work as a separate data source to be accessed from other applications, much like ADO, RDO, and DAO are used.
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