Hi hector, Thanks for your reply.

Have you used Crystal to design Forms (Invoices , Statements etc)
I'm wondering is it the right tool for this sort of work ?
Also, can you distribute a run time version of Crystal free of charge ?

Regards,

Gerard




>>Is there an 'Inbuilt' form designer/Printer in .Net
>> that you can use instead of Crystal.
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>There is no built-in report designer in .NET.
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>VS.NET comes with Crystal and it integrates in the VS.NET IDE but it's still a third party tool. Microsoft could have chosen other third party tool to bundle with VS.NET.
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>There are several other third party reporting tool for .NET. I am not very familiar with them, but there might even be a R&R for .NET.