How to use Crystal Reports without a tightly-linked DB connection?

Question

I\'m learning to use Crystal Reports (with VB 2005).

Most of what I\'ve seen so far involves slurping data directly from a database, which is fine if that\'s all you

Answer 1

I'm loading the report by filename and it is working perfect:

//........

ReportDocument StockObjectsReport;

string reportPath = Server.MapPath("StockObjectsReport.rpt");

StockObjectsReport.Load(reportPath);

StockObjectsReport.SetDataSource(stockValues);

//Export PDF To Disk

string filePath = Server.MapPath("StockObjectsReport.pdf");

StockObjectsReport.ExportToDisk(ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat, filePath);