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Asked: 2026-05-13T00:45:20+00:00

I’m working with Crystal Reports in VB.NET in Visual Studio 2005. I have a

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I’m working with Crystal Reports in VB.NET in Visual Studio 2005.

I have a List(Of Stuff) that I’ve sorted according to one of the object’s members.

I’ve verified in the debugger that the list is sorted correctly.

When I define my list as the data source, as in

rptDetails.Subreports.Item("rptSubReport").SetDataSource(theListOfStuff)

and view the report, the list is reversed.

So, looking for a workaround, I said, “OK, I’ll sort the list backwards before binding it.”

The list still appeared backwards in the report.

So something’s happening, and I think it’s within the report definition, because I don’t know where else the sort order could be changed. Any suggestions?

(Oh, forgot to mention that I used the report design facilities within VS to lay out the report.)

Thanks as always.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This link might help: MSDN Link

    This is what I suspected:
    CR does not retain any previous sorting for a dataset. Its default sort is based on the first column in ascending order. You have to reapply your sorting criteria to CR.

    You could just try:
    Dim subRpt as ReportDocument
    subRpt = rptDetails.Subreports.Item(“rptSubReport”)
    subRpt.DataDefinition.SortFields(0).SortDirection = CrystalDecisions.Shared.SortDirection.DescendingOrder

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