Crystal Reports & Networking in C#?

Hi,
I just read a little bit about Reports and I really like it and think it would greatly fit into one of my applications. But the problem I have is, that the reports access the database directly. The database server, which my application is using is only available at localhost. So I've a server / client architecture and I need the reports in the client.

So my question is, if it is somehow possible to create a report in the server application and send it (with serialization for example) to the client where it will be shown to the user.

Can someone give me a hint on this one

greetings

Stampede

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Crystal Reports & Networking in C#?

Alex Ivanov
Hello,

You could look at building a web application and then choose to use the DHTML viewer. That way the report is processed and generated on the web server and all that is pushed to the client is HTML.

Another option would be to expose the report as a web service and then build a client app that uses the Windows Form viewer to connect to the web service. As in the web scenario the report processing (and database connections) will be handled on the server hosting the web service.

The .NET section of our Dev Zone has a few articles and samples that will cover these 2 options:

http://businessobjects.com/products/dev_zone/net/default.asp ref=devzone_netzone_nav

Keith - Business Objects
Crystal Reports & Networking in C#?

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