Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio® .NET 2003 in 21 Days

Creating a Windows Forms Report

The first report you're going to write is a simple bound report using the Windows Forms viewer. To begin, start Visual Studio .NET and create a new Windows Forms application. Change the name of the application to Reports, as Figure 18.1 demonstrates.

Figure 18.1. Creating the Reports Windows Forms application.

After the application is loaded, right-click on the Reports project name in the Solution Explorer and select Add, New Item from the contextual menu. When the New Item dialog box pops up, scroll down until you see the Crystal Report item. Select the Crystal Report item and change its name to Report1, as shown ...