Tutorial: Populating a DropDownList of Reports from a Web Service: Introduction
Crystal Reports has enabled reports to be easily published and consumed as Report Web Services. Web and Windows applications can connect to a Report Web Service and display the Crystal report that is exposed by this service. Web services allow different applications to share both their data and their capabilities. Crystal Reports web services allow your web or windows applications to access reports located on a central report server. Reports stored on a centralized server can be updated independently of the applications that access those reports.
In this tutorial, you learn how to use Crystal Reports web services to populate a DropDownList control with a list of non-embedded reports from a web service.
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