Richard,

I'm not aware of a way to make this the default. You might want to search on the Crystal Decision's site to see if that is possible.

>this fixes my problem but surely i dont have to change the custom tool property for every report i add or create in .net, is there not a way to set
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>CrystalDecisions.VSShell.CodeGen.ReportCodeGenerator
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>as the default custom tool property for all reports ??