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Is there a way to use the Reportdesigner etc. in VB 6 Applications.

We have a lot of VB6 Applications and would like to build some new Reports in them.

Is there an Example available ?.

Thx

Stephan

I remember a thread a while back where someone was doing something from vb6 via activeX. I don't know if it's of any benefit but this is the post:

http://forum.stimulsoft.com/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=470

You can see sample project with similar COM interface to Stimulsoft Reports.Net at www.stimulsoft.com/private/Stimulsoft.Report.Com.zip.

Thank you.

Thx Vital,

but i cant get it work this example. It References an Object which is not included.

Stimulsoft.Report.StiConfig.Services.Add(new Stimulsoft.Report.Navision.Components.StiTextNV());

can i change this to

Stimulsoft.Report.StiConfig.Services.Add(new Stimulsoft.Report.Components.StiText());

Also how can i include this example in my VB6 application ?. The DLL which is created can not be referenced in a vb6 app.

Is there a working example available ? with vb6 code which is using the dll ?

thx

Stephan1 wrote:Thx Vital,

but i cant get it work this example. It References an Object which is not included.

Stimulsoft.Report.StiConfig.Services.Add(new Stimulsoft.Report.Navision.Components.StiTextNV());

can i change this to

Stimulsoft.Report.StiConfig.Services.Add(new Stimulsoft.Report.Components.StiText());

Yes, instead of using StiTextNV you can use StiText. It was done as example on using of your own components.

Also how can i include this example in my VB6 application ?. The DLL which is created can not be referenced in a vb6 app.

Is there a working example available ? with vb6 code which is using the dll ?

thx

Ok, we will prepare such an example.

Thank you.

Thx Edward that would be very great.

Stephan

Please download attached project. Add to references Stimulsoft Reports.Net dlls and rebuild the solution.

In Visual Basic please use the following code:

Set clnd = CreateObject("Stimulsoft.Report.Com.ReportCom")
clnd.DesignReport

DesignReport - one from accessible commands, full list of them you can see in the file ReportCom.cs, in "#region Methods for work with Report".

So after running code you will see the designer.

Thank you.

Thx Edward,

this example works fine.

I also found some very helpfull at the Microsoft Site. The text is in german/english, but very interesting.

Here are the Links:

How to call a .NET assembly in VB6 German
How to call a .NET assembly in VB6 English

Ok, thank you for the information.

Let me know if you need any help.

Thank you.