The Report Designer Component

The Report Designer Component (RDC) offers a dual interface COM component which is the most advanced technology available for developers. It is an ActiveX Designer that utilizes the reporting power of Crystal Reports. If you're creating applications in popular environments such as Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual InterDev® and Office 2000 (VBA), you can use the RDC to efficiently create the most powerful reporting functionality in your applications

Although the RDC is our latest integration technology, Crystal Reports 8 supports the older integration methods (32-bit only). We recommend, however, that you begin using the newest and best reporting technology available—the RDC—to create powerful reports that support the entire range of functionality available within Crystal Reports.

To better understand why the RDC offers the best solutions, it's important to understand its architecture and how it relates to different types of developers.

The RDC consists of three main components:



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