Question

I really want to know your experience at working with ADO.Net datasets (calling stored procedures from SQL) and Crystal Reports, I know about the 2-4 seconds to

CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument document = new CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument();
document.Load(file);

but what about the load of each tableadapter is there another way to work with Crystal Reports? Maybe with LINQ

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I have used DataSets with Crystal. In general I do not like to allow Crystal Reports to fetch its own data as we have had errors with it opening too many connections to the Database. I usually create a DataSet and serialize it to XML with the schema and use the xml file as the ADO.Net “DataBase” for design purposes and then at runtime I assign the DataSet to the Report

Dim rd As New ReportDocument
        rd.Load("SomeReport.rpt")
        rd.Database.Tables(0).SetDataSource(dataset)