Error in Export to PDF for crystal reports

Hi All,
I have created one Crystal Report & on other side i have created a windows form & kept crystal report viewer on it.so through my coding i'm setting the crystal report to get loaded into viewer on runtime.so in runtime i can connect to Printer (or) i can export it to PDF,but while exporting it to PDF gives me an error like this
System.Threading.ThreadStateException:current thread must be set to single state apartment(STA) mode before OLE calls may be made.Ensure that your main function has STAthreadAttribute marked on it.
System.Windows.Forms.Form.ShowDialog()
can anybody suggest me some ideas to solve this problem.
thanks,
shangai.

hello,
in details,
1. to make sure that ur .rpt file is working run in (Preview ) using crystal reports ... this should return the expected result.
2.try to run ur report in an Administrator account. (if i am correct w/ authorization issue) this should fix the problem.
best regards
fidel

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