Question

Currently I use the following method to assign connection info to all the report sections. But as I have many sections in the report, the report is displayed after almost 10 seconds. Which looks really slow. Is there some other method by which we can set logon information to each CR once and for all when it is installed at client side.

JFYI: All the CRs connect to same DB, with same login credentials. Thank you in advance.

   readDiamondBillReport = new RealDiamondBill();
                        crConnectionInfo.ServerName = db.Connection.DataSource;
                        crConnectionInfo.DatabaseName = db.Connection.Database;
                        crConnectionInfo.UserID = "client";
                        crConnectionInfo.Password = "client";
                        crConnectionInfo.IntegratedSecurity = false;

                        CrTables = readDiamondBillReport.Database.Tables;
                        foreach (CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.Table CrTable in CrTables)
                        {
                            crtableLogoninfo = CrTable.LogOnInfo;
                            crtableLogoninfo.ConnectionInfo = crConnectionInfo;
                            CrTable.ApplyLogOnInfo(crtableLogoninfo);
                        }

                        Sections crSections2 = readDiamondBillReport.ReportDefinition.Sections;
                        // loop through all the sections to find all the report objects 
                        foreach (Section crSection in crSections2)
                        {
                            ReportObjects crReportObjects = crSection.ReportObjects;
                            //loop through all the report objects in there to find all subreports 
                            foreach (ReportObject crReportObject in crReportObjects)
                            {
                                if (crReportObject.Kind == ReportObjectKind.SubreportObject)
                                {
                                    SubreportObject crSubreportObject = (SubreportObject)crReportObject;
                                    //open the subreport object and logon as for the general report 
                                    ReportDocument crSubreportDocument = crSubreportObject.OpenSubreport(crSubreportObject.SubreportName);

                                    Tables SubCrTables = crSubreportDocument.Database.Tables;
                                    foreach (CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.Table SubCrTable in SubCrTables)
                                    {
                                        crtableLogoninfo = SubCrTable.LogOnInfo;
                                        crtableLogoninfo.ConnectionInfo = crConnectionInfo;
                                        SubCrTable.ApplyLogOnInfo(crtableLogoninfo);

                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }

                        readDiamondBillReport.Refresh();

Answer 1

I finally found that, neither applying logon info was the issue nor refreshing the report was. But it was my large picture object which I used for setting a watermark in crystal reports.

I had 10 reports which used this Image as watermark. I removed the watermarked image and now following problems are solved:

1. Project builds very very fast. Previously it took around 1 min to build, which has now reduced drastically to 8-10 secs.

2. Any changes to the project, especially to reports gets saved much faster.

3. I used to get “Not enough storage is available to complete this operation” after one or two builds. I had to restart VS and cross my fingers for each of the build.

4. Crystal Reports are displayed faster on CrystalReportViewer and also objrpt.PrintToPrinter works 500 times faster.

I hope these points will help fellow programmers.