Report Viewer Controls
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio includes standard form controls for report viewing. Each control encapsulates complex report layout information into a GUI object within the Toolbox.
There are two provided controls:
| The CrystalReportViewer control. | This control displays the report in a page-based layout, with the ability to move between pages. |
| The CrystalReportPartsViewer control. | The control displays report summary information in a small, portal-like window, with the ability to drill down deeper into the report through a series of linked parts. |
Each control is used to display a report by dragging and dropping the control from the Toolbox onto the Web or Windows form, and then assigning the ReportSource property of that control to a report.