Delivering Reports with the Windows Forms Viewer
After reports are imported into or referenced from a Visual Studio .NET project, the next obvious step is to have a way to view those reports. This section covers report viewing in Windows Forms applications.
Windows Forms is the new .NET technology for building rich-client applications. It is the evolution of the COM and ActiveX platform that Crystal Reports was so popular in. When it comes to .NET, Crystal Decisions decided to write a native .NET control based on the Windows Forms technology. This control is simply called the Windows Forms Viewer. It's corresponding class name is CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms.CrystalReportViewer.
Like other Windows Forms controls, this control ultimately inherits ...
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