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Setting Up Sql Server Database
- Open you Sql Server Management Studio
- Connect to SQl Server
- Then in Right panel Right click on Databases and Click on New Database
- Now A New Dialog Box Appears
- Fill Database name: TestReports and Hit Enter . Now Table will be successfully created
- Now in the Query window execute the following scripts to create table
- After successfull creation of tables insert some dummy data in tables using following query code
- Now Our Database work is over Now we go to Visual Studio for code
Now Do Code in Visual Studio
Start your Visual Studio .Click on New project choose Asp.net Web Form Application and Give a appropriate name and choose location and Hit Enter .
- Right click on Project Folder in solution Explorer and click on Add then in further sub-menu click on New item
- Now a Popup window appears scroll and choose DataSet give name "Customers" and Click on Ok to add DataSet
- Now Customers Dataset will be added in solution explorer . Now Double click on it
- It will open DataSet Designer Now right click on and create new DataTable
- After Creating DataTable it will be empty by default now we will add column to it similar to our column in table in database
- Right click on DataTable that we have created and Create new Column and give it name try to give the name similar to name of columns in Table in Database
Adding Crystal Report
- Right click on Project Folder in solution Explorer and click on Add then in further sub-menu click on New item
- Now a Popup window appears scroll and choose Crystal Report give it name and Click on Ok
- Now Crystal Report Gallery window popup after some time
- Now choose "Using the Report Wizard" and click ok
- Now a window will popup and tell you to choose your dataset that we have created in above steps
- Choose your Datatable under Customers DataSet and Click ok
- Now your Dataset fields will be added on Field Explorer . Field explorer is available on left side of visual studio window
- In Field explorer under Database Expert you all datatable fields will be available
- you can drag these fields to crystal Report Details Section When you add them in Details Section Its Header will automatically added to Page Header Section
- you can do some design of your Crystal Report like shown below :-
Designing Form
- Now we will add a Aspx form that will be used to view our Crystal Report
- Right click on Project Folder in solution Explorer and click on Add then in further sub-menu click on New item
- Now a Popup window appears scroll and choose WebForm give it name and Click on Ok
- Now delete the existing code Add Following Code To Aspx Form
<%@ Register Assembly="CrystalDecisions.Web, Version=13.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304"
Namespace="CrystalDecisions.Web" TagPrefix="CR" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<center>
<CR:CrystalReportViewer ID="CrystalReportViewer1" runat="server" AutoDataBind="true" Width="1000" />
</center>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Adding Csharp ( C# ) Code
- Now go to Csharp code of New Added Webform and Add code similar to code below :-
- Add this code under your partial class --
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
ReportDocument crystalReport = new ReportDocument();
crystalReport.Load(Server.MapPath("~/CustomerReport.rpt"));
Customers dsCustomers = GetData("select * from Testtable");
crystalReport.SetDataSource(dsCustomers);
CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = crystalReport;
}
private Customers GetData(string query)
{
string conString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["constr"].ConnectionString;
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(query);
using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(conString))
{
using (SqlDataAdapter sda = new SqlDataAdapter())
{
cmd.Connection = con;
sda.SelectCommand = cmd;
using (Customers dsCustomers = new Customers())
{
sda.Fill(dsCustomers, "DataTable1");
return dsCustomers;
}
}
}
}