An Overview of the Crystal Reports 10 .NET Components

Crystal Reports 10 provides developers working within Visual Studio .NET with a fast, productive way to create and integrate presentation-quality, interactive reports to meet the demands of their applications end users. Crystal Reports 10 enhances the .NET platform by allowing you to

• Create reports from virtually any data source
• Deliver interactive, graphical report content in rich-client (Windows Forms), zero-client environments (Web Forms), or any device through an XML Web Services model
• Save time and write less code by leveraging existing Crystal Reports and report creation knowledge within .NET projects

To accomplish this, Crystal Reports 10 provides a broad offering of .NET technologies for delivering reports inside .NET applications. The following sections cover each component at a high level. They are

• The Report Designer
• The Report Engine Object Model
• The Windows Forms Viewer
• The Web Forms Viewers