I have tried several attempts to load data on my cryatel reports viewer. I am using visual basiv in visual studio.net 2008. My crstal reports are connected verbaum per all the tutorals I can find, but the problem I am having is that the crystel report viewer is jst showing the fied titles such as student or employee ID, but nor the data. I have set the data source propperly . I also downloaded this sample from the code project web site and I have the same problem. wat do I need to do next? it has been come a big stumbling block for me.

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visual studio.net novice programmer

here is the sample code I ws refering to


http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/CreatingCrystalReports.aspx

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visual studio.net novice programmer

Actuallt this all I GET FROM MY CRYSTEL REPORT VIEWER



PERSONAL DATA REPORT
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Contact No      Address       Birth Date      Last Name        First Name     StudentID



BUT NO DATA SHOWS UP 

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visual studio.net novice programmer

Hi,

That's strange , it seems you have change the layout of the report, do you create it by yourself?

I just download the project and convert it , it works here.

please try to run it to see if it works for you :
http://cid-219dc49fbdfffbd1.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/CreatingCrystalReportsSoure.rar

Harry

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Yes, I was able to download it on my other machine, because it has more data base drivers to acomidate this project that you and I  had downloaded .

Which brings me to my next question. It seems to me since I am a novice to crystal reports, my inital investigtion reveals  that you need the various database drivers to make a proper connection.

Therefore, this is why I am having so many problems. When I go to control panel then I go to aministrator tools, then to microsoft ODBC Administrator then select the users  DSN tab, the only database drivers that come up is the sql databse drivers. How do I download and install the other various drivers that I need?


Also when I make a database in visual studio 2008 the database extension file is MDF. How do I connect to that? I tried to do a direct connect from the projects folder and it gave me the results in my crystal report viewer as shown above in the example. I need good tutorals and good code examples to get me through the learning process of crystal reports. Please help. thanks

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visual studio.net novice programmer

Hi,

The supported data sources are listed in the page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms225573.aspx

The sample in the areticle uses datasets as data source.

You might want to create connection to database:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms227478.aspx

Then pull data to report, please take a look at the article about how to do it:
http://devlibrary.businessobjects.com/BusinessObjectsXIR2/en/en/CrystalReports_dotNET_SDK/crsdk_net_doc/doc/crsdk_net_doc/html/crtsktutorialsrdparametersdiscrete.htm

Harry

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