Question

I am trying to open an access report through .net. I can open it in normal mode using Access.AcView.acViewNormal, but it’s not what I want to do because that prompts the user to save the first and then it can be viewed. I want the report to pop up and it seems .acViewPreview or .acViewReport is what i should use, but it’s not popping up.

It does open up a process and seems to be opening, but i can’t see the report. Perhaps it’s closing really fast. The following is the code I have currently

private void buttonResults_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Microsoft.Office.Interop.Access.Application oAccess = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Access.Application();
        oAccess.OpenCurrentDatabase("D:\\path.mdb",true);

        try
        {
            oAccess.DoCmd.OpenReport("rptChartData", Microsoft.Office.Interop.Access.AcView.acViewPreview);
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
        }
    }

What am i doing wrong?? Thanks in advance…

Answer 1

I don’t know Dot Net. I put this code in an Excel module and it created an Access instance and displayed my report. The key seemed to be oAccess.Visible = True Without setting Visible = True, Access opened (and remained open) with the report but was just not visible.

Dim strDbFullPath As String
Dim oAccess As Access.Application

strDbFullPath = "C:\Access\webforums\whiteboard2003.mdb"
Set oAccess = New Access.Application

oAccess.Visible = True
oAccess.OpenCurrentDatabase strDbFullPath, True
oAccess.DoCmd.OpenReport "rptFoo", acViewPreview

So I think this may not be a Dot Net issue, but standard behavior for an Access application instance.