Actually, no... The control does not have to be registered in VFP to do this. When you register a control in the Intellisense Manager, it makes it visible to Intellisense, but it will work without doing that.

>Kevin:
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>The activex control must be registered in VFP.. To do that,
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>To register the runtime component --- in VFP
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>Select Tools - Intellisense Manager
>Click the types tab
>Make sure that COM servers is displayed in the drop down on the right..
>scroll to Crystal Reports 9 ActiveX Designer Runtime Library
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>Click DONE to close the type library references dialog
>Click OK to close the intellisense manager
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>In the command window you can type:
>oCRW = CREATEOBJECT("CrystalRunTime.Application")
>Then if you type oCR.
>When you press the . Intellisense will kick in and show you the properties & methods..
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>You might as well registrer the CR Viewer control while you are at it. This time, go to the tools | Options menu from the VFP tool bar.
>select the Controls tab, then select ActiveX controls from the pulldown.
>Select the Crystal Reports Viewer control 9 from the list. Make sure you click on Set as default otherwise VFP may forget the setting.
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>Click ok to close the options dialog.
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>Now you can create a new class based on CR Viewer etc...
>
>
>As a final - Get CrysDev: A developers guide to integrating Crystal Reports, by Craig Bernston, it is a life saver.. you can get it from www.hentzenwerke.com.
>
>Hope this helps
>Haydn