How to Convert Existing ASP Crystal Reports to Crystal .NET with the .NET Framework

Perhaps you've been tasked with modifying an existing Crystal 8.5 Report, but this time instead of using the traditional classic ASP format, your group is using .NET technology. For this new report, you want to use a dataset as the datasource, but you also might want to make future reports into web services. Sound familiar?

In this article, author Eric Landes walks you through the processes required to convert your classic ASP pages that display Crystal Reports to Crystal .NET using the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET. This article assumes familiarity with classic ASP (VBScript), Crystal Reports 8.0 and above, SQL Server 2000, and Visual Studio .NET. On SQL Server 2000, you need to have the Northwind database installed.