Crystal Report Engine Automation Server

The Crystal Report Engine Automation Server has been designed as both an object-oriented approach to adding Crystal Report Engine features to your applications, and as an ideal method for displaying reports in web pages. If you work in a development environment that supports access to COM-based automation servers, such as Visual Basic, you will quickly make full use of the Crystal Report Engine Automation Server to add powerful reporting to your applications. In addition, if you manage a web server that supports Active Server Pages, such as Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) or Personal Web Server, the Crystal Report Engine Automation Server satisfies all of your dynamic reporting needs.

The Crystal Report Engine Automation Server (CPEAUT32.DLL) was installed in your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory when you installed Crystal Reports. The Crystal Report Engine Automation Server is an in-process automation server based on the Component Object Model (COM). This automation server provides an IDispatch interface, but is not programmable through a vtable interface. For Visual Basic programmers and in Active Server Pages, handling the IDispatch interface is almost transparent. For more information on the Component Object Model and COM interfaces, refer to Microsoft documentation.

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