Kevin,
Yes it does appear that if I access the report as a strongly typed report the rpt file does not need to be distributed. Thanks for your reply.

I seem to remember from my VFP days (it seems so long ago) that I could also include the fr? files into the exe, but this was usually not recommended. Do you know what the .NET recommendation is in regards to this?

Einar

>Hey, Einar,
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>If you add your RPT to the project (by clicking add...existing item), you can access the report as a strongly typed report, like so...
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>Suppose you added InvoiceRpt.RPT to your project
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>InvoiceRpt oMyReport = new InvoiceRpt();
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>Now you can access the report object...and I'm pretty certain you don't need to distribute the RPT. (When you add the RPT to the project, .NET generates a CS file and other resource info for you). I believe you only need to distribute the RPT if you're using the load method to load it manually.
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>Again, this is covered in the Brian Bischoff book.
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>Kevin