The following demonstrates how to add the ActiveReports Windows Form Viewer to projects. In this example, the report is named "rptMain." When referring to this example please remember that you will need to replace "rptMain" with the name of the report used in your project. For example, in the 2D Bar Chart walkthrough, the report is named "rptBarChart." So in order to use this code for that walkthrough, you would replace the reference to "rptMain" with "rptBarChart."   

To use the ActiveReports Windows Form Viewer to preview report output

1. Add an ActiveReport to your Visual Studio project and rename it rptMain.
2. Add a new "Windows Form" to your project.
3. Click on the ActiveReports viewer control in the appropriate toolbox and drag it onto your Windows form.
4. Set the viewer control's Dock property to Fill.

To write the code for the viewer in Visual Basic or C#

• Double-click the title bar of the Windows Form to create an event-handling method for the Load event of the Windows form. Add code to the handler to:
  • Format the viewer to show the report when it is run

The following example shows what the code for the method looks like.

' Visual Basic
Private Sub myForm_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles _
	MyBase.Load
	Dim rpt As New rptMain()
	Viewer1.Document = rpt.Document
	rpt.Run()
End Sub

//C#
private void myForm_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
	rptMain rpt = new rptMain();
	this.viewer1.Document = rpt.Document;
	rpt.Run();
}

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