Hi Mike,

Here are some articles that step you through the process of creating Crystal Reports in .NET. I'm thinking that you are just missing a "critical" step to get the report to display properly. The error that is generating tells me that some where in your code you are missing creating an object.

http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/tutorials.aspx?tutorialid=453

http://www.devx.com/codemag/articles/2002/JulyAug/CrystalReports/codemag-1.asp

http://www.dotnetextreme.com/articles/CrystalReports.asp

http://www.aspfree.com/authors/jitajay/crystalreport.aspx

http://www.aspalliance.com/articles/CR1.aspx


>Ok - I'm at the end of my rope with this report.
>I can see the report at design time.
>I have set the ReportSource to "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\MyWeb\CrystalReport.rpt"
>After the call to InitializeComponent(), I added CrystalReportViewer1.DataBind()
>
>I get Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
>
>And a Stack Trace (that I'm sorry but I dont understand it)
>
>What in the world am I NOT doing.
>
>The CR Report expert adds several references that I have set the property of Copy Local = true
>
>Please help, I've spent all D*#^ day trying to make this simple thing work.
>
>Thanks In advance