1613585 - Why does my Crystal Report preview show the days of the week and names of colours?

• Previewing a Crystal Report in the embedded report designer in Visual Studio 2010.
• Instead of showing the correct report data, random numbers or days of the week or names of colours are displayed?
• Why does the random data get displayed?

• Visual Studio 2010
• Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010

• The random data is displayed because there is no valid data available for the preview.
• This is most often done when the ADO.NET (XML) driver is used because the embedded designer has no way of getting data from the DataSet.
• The random data is used intentionally written so the report designer can get an idea of how their report will look.
• This is not an issue at runtime in the application.

• Preview the report in the application using the CrystalReportViewer - Winform, webform or WPF viewer.
  • This will use live data from the SetDataSource method.
• Design your report on a .xml file which includes data and a schema. The .xsd file contains no data, so random data is used instead.

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SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio