Connecting VB.NET 2003 with seagate crystal report 8.0 through code

[Former Member]

Hi Everyone,

I am using VB.Net 2003 , seagate crystal report 8.0 and MySQL as backend.

I want to connect report dynamicaly through Connection String

and not by DSN .

Please tell me how to connect

VB.NET and Crystal report through any one of these methods

like by connection string or by Dataset or by XML) .

Thank you

Regards,

Magesh

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Magesh,

the earliest version compatible for .NET 2003 I think is Crystal Reports 10.

I do not think that seagate crystal report version 8 will work with .NET at all.

Falk

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I am connecting seagate crystal report 8.0 with vb.net 2003 through DSN.

It is working fine past 3 years.

My question is, i want to connect Seagate crystal report 8.0

with vb.net 2003 through any one of the method like connection string or by dataset or

by XML.

thanks

regards,

magesh

[former_member11696 · Accepted solution]

Which report Engine are you using?

[former_member208657 · Accepted solution]

My first suggestion is to upgrade to either Crystal Reports XI R2 or Crystal Reports 2008. You can at least work with the Crystal Reports .NET SDK in your Visual Studio .NET environment.

If you insist on using Crystal Reports 8.0 then you are likely going to be using the RDC in Visual Studio .NET 2003. I've heard of some customers doing it but you are on your own for getting it working. You can go ahead and reference the docs in our library here http://devlibrary.businessobjects.com/BusinessObjectsXI/en/devlib.htm.

Keep in mind those docs are for version XI, but the RDC hasn't changed much over the last few years. You'll want to look at the Crystal Reports > Report Designer Component (RDC) SDK.