The Crystal Report Viewer for ActiveX is a standard ActiveX control that can be added to an application in any development environment that supports ActiveX. Programmers using Visual Basic, Delphi, Visual C++, or Borland C++ programmers all receive the benefit of quickly adding a powerful report viewer to an application with little coding.
As a standard component, the ActiveX Report Viewer exposes several properties at design time, but also provides a complete object model with properties, methods, and events that can be programmed at runtime. The following sections discuss various topics for working with the ActiveX Report Viewer in Visual Basic. If you are using a development environment other than Visual Basic, use these topics as a guideline, but refer to your development software documentation for specific information on working with ActiveX controls.
The Crystal Report Viewer, as an ActiveX control, includes a complete object model for controlling how it appears in an application, and how it displays reports. Simply displaying a report in the Report Viewer window takes little code, but to truly make use of its power requires a broader understanding of how to work with the object model.
Adding the Report Viewer to a Visual Basic project.
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