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Since a long time, Visual Basie and Visual Studio have Crystal report with it. People are saying that since
1993. But in VS2010, they excluded Crystal reports. Yes, what you just heard is right, Crystal Report has
been dropped from Visual Studio 2010. But don't worry, it is available as a separate download from the
SAP web site. These are the things that I found from the internet.
Reports for Visual Studio 2010 will be releosed seporotely, instead of
included with the product ond Most impaftontLy, Crystal Reports for VkuaL Studio 2070 wilL
continue to be free, with no registration required.'

'lt turns out that Crystol

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I was searching the internet for Crystal reports in 2010 and I

particular tutorials for 2010. So

who have not worked on Crystal Reports earlier.

morning.

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In this artiele, I will show you simple report creation process with screenshots" A picture is worth more
than a thousand words, so I always believe in an article with screenshots"
Let's start by creating a new website in VS2010" See the following screen:

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expand it and drag one by one filed from Field Explorer to the rpt file under detail section.
Now the repoft design part is over" Now we have to fetch the data from database and bind it to dataset
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