Once you look at the code needed, a lot of things make sense, but its all in that one document anyway.

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I need to upgrade to Crystal Ver 8.5 or above to implement exporting rpts to pdf.

The answer is actually in BizObjects Knowledgebase, but it isnt so obvious what to look for.

Query their KB for OCX RDC and find the technical paper Migrating from the OCX.

Yes, I finally got the solution - actually during installation of CR11, I was using a registraion Key that was only for CR11 and not for Developer.

After unistalling entrire CR11 and re-installong agagin (with Developer Key), well.things couldnt be better.

Simply start VB6 IDE and things behave just as they were in the CR8.5 days.

In CR XI you have Developer version only will allow you to deploy with VB.

And in VB you have to follow these steps to run CRXI reports in VB.

CrystalActiveXReportViewer.ReportSource Report.Application.OpenReport( Give Report Path ).

You can declare Crystal Report1 when you drag and drop crystal report viewer in ur form and name it as Crystalreport1.

Query their KB for OCX RDC and find the technical paper Migrating from the OCX Control to the Crystal Reports 9 Report Designer Component (RDC).

The RDC is essentially unchanged from versions 9 thru version 11, which is what throws many off.

I have all my reports pointing to a named data source or DSN.

Your VB program must also step through and assign the DSN to each table in the report.

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