Crystal Report Viewer

Question

is ther any Crystal Rerport control in WPF like what we have in Windows Form previously?
I could not locate the any crystal report control in VS 2008...
If not, how can we integrate the reporting services provided by Crystal Report into WPF-application?

Thank you.

Answer 1

CrystalReportViewer is a Windows Forms control, you can use WPF/Windows Form interop technology to integrate the viewer into the WPF application. Here is the steps you can do.

 

1. Add a reference to the CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms.dll.

2. Add a namespace mapping in XAML.

3. Use WindowsFormsHost to host the CrystalReportViewer control.

 

Sample code:

Code Snippet

<Window

   x:Class="ForumProjects.MainWindow"

   xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

   xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

   xmlns:crystal="clr-namespace:CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms;assembly=CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms"

   Title="MainWindow" Width="800" Height="600">

    <WindowsFormsHost>

        <crystal:CrystalReportViewer x:Name="MyCrystalReportViewer" Width="300" Height="300"/>

    </WindowsFormsHost>

</Window>

public partial class MainWindow : Window

{

    public MainWindow()

    {

        InitializeComponent();

        // reference CrystalReportViewer in code behind

        this.MyCrystalReportViewer.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.AliceBlue;

    }

}

 

 

Best Regards,

Wei Zhou

Answer 2

 

Will this work for an XBAP?

Answer 3

Wei Zhou - MSFT wrote:

CrystalReportViewer is a Windows Forms control, you can use WPF/Windows Form interop technology to integrate the viewer into the WPF application. Here is the steps you can do.   1. Add a reference to the CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms.dll. 2. Add a namespace mapping in XAML. 3. Use WindowsFormsHost to host the CrystalReportViewer control.   Sample code: Code Snippet <Window    x:Class="ForumProjects.MainWindow"    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"    xmlns:crystal="clr-namespace:CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms;assembly=CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms"    Title="MainWindow" Width="800" Height="600">     <WindowsFormsHost>         <crystal:CrystalReportViewer x:Name="MyCrystalReportViewer" Width="300" Height="300"/>     </WindowsFormsHost> </Window> public partial class MainWindow : Window {     public MainWindow()     {         InitializeComponent();         // reference CrystalReportViewer in code behind         this.MyCrystalReportViewer.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.AliceBlue;     } }     Best Regards, Wei Zhou

Thanks for your reply, will try it out later

Answer 4

If your XBAP is running in a partial trust environment, you were unable to get this work. Otherwise, if your XBAP is running in a full trust environment, you can get this work. By default, XBAP is running in partial trust environment. The reason of this issue is that the CrystalReportViewer is a Windows Forms control and Windows Forms control needs full trust security environment. You can refer to the following link to get more information about XBAP security topic.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970910.aspx

 

Best Regards,

Wei Zhou