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Why does Crystal Reports use .NET controls for report viewing?

April 26, 2017controls crystal report reports viewing

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Why does Crystal Reports use .NET controls for report viewing?

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One of the strengths of reporting tools is that they encapsulate the complex issues of report structure, design, and rendering within a simple GUI tool. Similarly, .NET controls encapsulate complex display and data population issues within a simple GUI object on a Web or Windows Form. With the use of .NET controls, complex reporting and display are brought together. All of the complex report information, which used to be encapsulated only in the Crystal Reports stand-alone application, has now been encapsulated within a .NET control as a report viewer.How many report viewer controls are there? Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005 comes with two versions of the CrystalReportViewer control: one for Web applications, and one for Windows applications. The CrystalReportViewer control, located within the CrystalDecisions.Web namespace, is used by ASP.NET Web projects. The CrystalReportViewer control, located within the CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms namespace, is used by Windows projects.N