Hey Jeff,

I don't know anything about Crystal, but it sounds like you need to use reflection to get at this. Here's an example of using reflection:

string DLLName = "MyDLL";
string ClassName = "MyClass";
System.Reflection.Assembly oDLL;
object oClass;

// This "loads" the .DLL
oDLL = System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFrom(DLLName);

// This creates the class instance
oClass = oDLL.CreateInstance(ClassName);

And if you need to pass parameters

// Create an instance of the desired form from the assembly
object [] args = new object[1];
args[0] = MyKey;
oForm = (Form)oDLL.CreateInstance(classname, true, System.Reflection.BindingFlags.CreateInstance, null, args, null, null);

I hope this points you in the right direction.

~~Bonnie


>Can I use a variable to instantiate a report?
>
>Like
>
>dim myreportname as string
>Dim orpt As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument
>
>myreportname = "myreport1"
>orpt = New myreportname
>
>This does not work. Is there a way??
>
>Jeff