Visual Studio Viewer and Copy and Paste

[Former Member]

Hello, I am using Visual Studio 2008. windows forms and Business Object Viewer comes with Visual Studio 2008 to display Crystal reports. I see that I can't copy the cells (highlight and copy as in MS word). Users want to copy a cell data and paste it on a inquiry field. Am I missing something?

[former_member183750 · Accepted solution]

Benny, the report in the viewer is essentially a pictorial representation of the data, so no you can not copy the fields.

Ludek

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks. Looks like you can get the data toWINFOPRM with some C# coding.

[ido_millet · Accepted solution]

Hi Ludek,

Once of my customers complained about the same thing. In the 2008 .NET viewer application, you can select elements in the viewer, but you can't copy & paste them. In RDC viewer applications (as well as in Crystal), you can copy & paste both text elements as well as graphical elements.

I was hoping that this "regression" in functionality would be addressed by a future service pack. Could you please let us know if this is a reasonable hope?

Thanks,

ido

[former_member184995 · Accepted solution]

Hi Ido,

I am not sure this was ever available in the .NET viewer. It working in the RDC viewer is not a regression issue as it is a completely different object model and there is no expectation that something that works one way in the RDC will work the same way in .NET. Ludek can speak to this better than I can though since he has worked with the RDC.

Jason

[former_member183750 · Accepted solution]

Nothing I can add, other than to support what Jason said.

Ludek

[ido_millet · Accepted solution]

Thanks, folks.

If you have a chance, please mention this to the development team. Perhaps this is something they can easily add to the next SP.