Crystal Reports Integration

Visual DataFlex includes a comprehensive set of classes that fully integrate Crystal Reports into the development enviropnment using the Crystal Reports Report Designer Component (RDC). The RDC uses Crystal’s Craxddrt.dll automation library, CRViewer.dll ActiveX report viewer and CDO32.dll automation library. With a Crystal Reports Developer license, application builders can distribute Crystak reports embedded in their applications royalty free. The Visual DataFlex Crystal classes implement the RDC object model, which is made up of many objects with simple interfaces.

Visual DataFlex’s Crystal RDC implementation includes…

• A simple, effective way to view reports within an application 
• A new Crystal RDC Report Integration Wizard in Studio 
• Use of the standard Crystal RDC object model and interface – the standard method for working with Crystal 
• Easy access to the most commonly needed Crystal COM objects via a new Visual DataFlex wrapper class, cCrystal 
• Simplification of the object aggregation process 
• Helper interfaces to make it easy to do the most commonly required reporting tasks 
• Thorough examples to demonstrate methods and techniques for completing more complex report integration tasks

Learn more about integrating Crystal Reports with Visual DataFlex applications by reading “Using Crystal Reports in Applications” in the product documentation. You can also learn from the updated Crystal Report views in the Visual DataFlex Order Entry example.

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