Crystal report in wpf

Question

hi i am new in WPF.
How to i can use crystal report in WPF?
is their any help..?

Answer 1

The documents tend to tell you to use odbc, this is a bad idea.
Don't just read the data in the report.
You want to get your data yourself and supply it to the report.
Build your report against a fixed table or stored procedure but don't use that directly when live.
If you have a datatable then that's probably the easiest option.
You want a source of data to design your report against and the simplest is a stored procedure or a table.
You can create a table temporarily for this, or even use xml but you need something concrete to design against.
A stored procedure should have only one output - use
Set Nocount on
Or you'll have two.
Build your report against that table or stored procedure ( the option to "see" stored procedures is a bit fiddly to find ).
You won't use that live though.
Print preview will involve the viewer, so you're going to put a crystal report viewer on a window or whatever.
And here's some code should give you an idea.
This is out an old asp.net application -  you will obviously not be using server mappath to find your report file.
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
ReportDocument rd;
DataTable dt = (DataTable)Session["xxxData"];
// Tricky bit here is to make the name of the datatable match what the report expects
dt.TableName = "DataTable1";
rd = new ReportDocument();
rd.Load(Server.MapPath("Reports\\xxxReport.rpt"));
rd.SetDataSource(dt);
rd.Refresh();
CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = rd;
CrystalReportViewer1.RefreshReport();
CrystalReportViewer1.DisplayGroupTree = false;
I adapted someone's code for them to answer another question which ended up:
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
string connString = "data source=192.168.1.5; initial catalog=hrdata;uid=sa; password=1234";
using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(connString))
con.Open();
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("ViewEmployeeNoR", con);
cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure; ..........
SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter();
da.SelectCommand = cmd;
da.Fill(dt);
ReportDocument objRpt = new Reports.CrystalReportData1();
objRpt.SetDataSource(dt);
crystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = objRpt;
crystalReportViewer1.Refresh();
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