Crystal Reports in ASP.NET/Visual Studio 2010

Is it possible to generate a CrystalReport without using the wizards of the DataSets and CrystalReports?

If so, which i开发者_JAVA技巧s the best way to tackle it?

So far, I've created an empty DataSet and an empty CrystalReport, and linked the CrystalReport to the latter DataSet using the wizard. Afterwords, I am creating a DataTable, putting this table into the DataSet and displaying it into a report. But an exception always generates telling me that no table was found. This is definetly not the case, since the same table is being viewed as a GridView at a previous stage.

Any help is highly appreciated,

Thanks

I think the CrystalReport will generate some kind of schema - so when you first show it a empty set it won't find the table afterwards. There should be some kind of "refresh database" inside the wizard.

Normaly you wan't to create a typed-dataset (with the VS-Designer) and show this to the wizard. Then everything works rather fine.

OT: But as a long time user of CR let me tell you: this tool is a pain in the A. - if there are more than one version of it on a system (and chances are pretty high for this) you will witness all kind of really bad behaviour.