how to use Crystal Report in asp.net web Application

Crystal Report in asp.net web Application by C#:



A Business intelligence application (BIA) called Crystal Report. It is used to design Report and generate reports from a wide range of data sources form data base. Crystal Reports has been part of Visual Studio, A Standard for reporting in Visual Studio (.net platform).

C# Crystal Report:

Crystal Report is a Reporting Application that is you to generate reports from various Data Sources like Data bases, XML files etc. The Asp.net IDE (Integrated Development Environment) comes with Crystal Reports tools. The Crystal Reports makes it easy to create simple and large reports, and also has comprehensive tools that we need to produce complex or specialized reports in c# and other programming languages.

Need of Crystal Report in asp.net Application:

  • Embed your reports directly into the project.
  • Access them externally, from a file directory.
  • Access them as a Report Web Service from a remote server.
  • Connect to them as Crystal Services.

Crystal Report is compatible with most popular development environments like C#, vb etc.


There are 5 Type of Crystal Report in asp.net:

  • Simple Crystal Report
  • Group in Crystal Report
  • Graph in Crystal Report
  • Cross-Tab in Crystal Report
  • Sub report in Crystal Report 

Crystal Reports is more powerful features of visual Studio come in Visual Studio 2005. 

New Features in Crystal Reports in Asp.net:

  • Crystal Reports for Asp.net projects are supported on 64-bit machines.
  • Crystal Reports fully supports the new Click Once deployment of Windows.
  • Project templates can be selected when creating a new Web application in asp.net.
  • Several improvements have been made to the Crystal Report Viewer control.
  • Accessibility has been improved in Crystal Reports for Asp.net with Visual Studio.
  • Crystal Reports supports international characters through Unicode, the Chinese character encoding standard and GB18030-2000.
  • Crystal Reports are available when building Web Sites or Windows projects using Asp.net.
  • In Crystal Reports, the Preview tab has been added to the embedded Crystal Reports Designer to enable for preview reports at design time



Step by step Description of CrystalReports :



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