Crystal Report with Asp.NET – Using Data Objects

• First of all you want to  create a database connection to your SQL Server. (Optional – you can find many other ways if you are already known.) 
• Then crate you Business Class which marches to the data base table. for a example

Customer.cs file public class Customer { public int Year { get; set; } public String Name { get; set; } }

Then go to query editor and run this SQL, It is better you have some records inserted in the table.

SELECT TOP (1) Name, Year FROM Table1 FOR XML AUTO, Elements

It will return following kind of a XML. thus copy it and save it as Table1.xml (for that add a new XML file to the project and paste the content and save it.)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Table1>
  <Name>Amal</Name>
  <Year>12</Year>
</Table1> 

Then add a new crystal report by selecting a black report option.

Now go to the database Expert and select .Net Object from the Tree menu.

In there select the Customer (this is the class which we created early) and click it to push the other category. Then It will popup following screen. In there select the table1.xml that we created early.

If you click finished auto generated report will be appear. You also can customize your report as relevant.

Now you want to put the data to the report.  Thus add a web form to your project and named it as Report.aspx.  and drag and drop a crystal report viewer to the page.

Report.aspx

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" ><head runat="server"><title></title></head>
<body><form id="form1" runat="server"> <div> <CR:CrystalReportViewer ID="CrystalReportViewer1" runat="server" 
            AutoDataBind="true" />
     </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Report.aspx.cs

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    List<Customer> cutomerlist = getCustomers();
    ReportDocument report = new ReportDocument();
    report.Load(Server.MapPath("CrystalReport.rpt"));
    report.SetDataSource(cutomerlist);
    CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = report;
}

private List<Customer> getCustomers() 
{
    // Put your data base code here to get customers
    // I'm adding sample data here
    List<Customer> list = new List<Customer>();
    list.Add(new Customer() { Name = "Saman", Year = 12 });
    list.Add(new Customer() { Name = "Brao", Year = 15 });
    return list;
}