First of all, we are using Crystal Reports 2011 (v14.0.2.364)
I'm working in a small non-profit in healthcare, where there are very limited budgets.
=> This lead to me using VS Express, meaning i can't use the CR for VS stuff (right?)
What i'm trying to do is create ad hoc report definitions (select certain stuff in a small application, and based on that, a very basic report should come out) to facilitate report creation (otherwise i need to define 50+ subreports manually, all on the same DB, with different column definitions, ...)
Now i've read around a lot in the last few days, and while at the moment i've succeeded in opening an existing report, and 'browsing' through its contents using the VS Debugger, it seems i'm missing the ReportDef assemblies,
=> so i can't change the definition of the report. (right?)
I'm confused... i've read that CR XI SP2+ contains the RAS SDK, which should contain the RCAPI, and i should be able to use this in-process.
Since "CR 2011" > "CR XI SP2", i assumed it would work...
Obviously i've read either the wrong documents, or i'm misinterpreting them, or i've overlooked something...
Just to be clear: there is no budget (not money-wise, nor time-wise) to be going after the Crystal Reports Server things, so if that is the only way i can produce the desured outcome, i might as well just ditch the current project and go after something else (like generating myDBR code)
could someone offer some clarifications on this please? (and maybe i'm posting this in the wrong forum, but i'm accessing cr rpt files from VS...
(using C# btw)
thanx in advance
Michael
