Dear All,

1.) I am wondering if anyone has tried using crystal reports with VSTools?  What I have managed to do is to open a crystal report in the same form it was called from.  Howeer, what I would like is to open the report in a separate window.

Say we add a button 'Report" on EstimateFreight and added a CrystalReportViewer control to a new form 'ReportFreight'.  I would assume:

EstimateFreight frm = new EstimateFreight();

frm.CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource(myDataSet);

However, the crystalreportviewer in ReportFreight is not accessible from EstimateFreight, whilst any other controls are.

2.) Also, is it possible to add a new menu item under the existing GP9 Reports menu? or can forms only be added to Extras > Additional?

 Thanks

Rob:

I've not had a chance to test Crystal, but I'd imagine it would be like any other vb app, and there is plenty of documentation on that on the internet...

I'm sure about 2, though... You can only add to the Extras menu.

Has anyone else tried Crystal?

Yes Steve, it's exactly the same, with one exception. I can't seem to access the CrystalReportViewer control in Form2, from Form1. I foudnd that a bit odd

 Regarding the adding of menus ... bummer! ... that's quite a annoying limitation!