I'm working on an AddIn for CR2008.
I did already made the addin working the way I want using a previous forum post from myself: [;
In the already working addin, I get a C# DataSet (filled with data) from our own build database layer, and bind this to the report so a report can be designed using this dataset (see the post from myself in [; on Aug 28, 2008 4:45 PM.
But now we have changes our database layer, and this layer is supplying now C# Objects. So plain C# class instances with properties.
I want to change the add-in so it will work with C# Objects. I'm thinking about using a temporary XML file to store the data in (based on the objects), and then load this XML file into the report using the AddIn.
Code should look something like:
PropertyBag logonInfo = new PropertyBag();
logonInfo.EnsureCapacity(1);
logonInfo.Add("XML File Path", tempFileName);
PropertyBag attributes = new PropertyBag();
attributes.EnsureCapacity(5);
attributes.Add("Database DLL", "crdb_adoplus.dll");
attributes.Add("QE_DatabaseType", "ADO.NET (XML)");
attributes.Add("QE_ServerDescription", "NewDataSet");
attributes.Add("QE_SQLDB", true);
attributes.Add("QE_LogonProperties", logonInfo);
But maybe there is a much better way of doing this. I did found in the Database Expert screen of Crystal Reports 2008, that it is possible to load an xml file (Create New Connection > XML and Web Service). If this is the best way, how should such an XML file look like?
Bluesky
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