AR19 with Visual Studio 2022

AR19 with Visual Studio 2022

Posted by: claudio on 25 June 2025, 10:10 am EST

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  claudio

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  Posted 25 June 2025, 10:10 am EST

  How can I use AR19 with VS2022?
  
  I used for years AR2 with Visual Basic 6 an now I’m trying to migrate my applications to VB.NET.

  In AR2 VB6 I’m using this lines to call reports:
  
  RptClients.Adodc.ConnectionString = vConnection
  
  RptClients.Adodc.Source = “Select [ClientName] from [Clients] order by [ClientName]”
  
  RptClients.Caption = “Clients Reports”
  
  RptClients.documentName = “Clients Reports”
  
  RptClients.Show

  With VB.NET isn’t work this way.

  Could someone help me please?
  
  I know it seems very basic, but I don’t know where to start.

  Thanks!

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  anand.sinha

  

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  Posted 25 June 2025, 11:30 pm EST - Updated 25 June 2025, 11:37 pm EST

  Hi Claudio,

  Please note that ActiveReports 2 is a very old version of ActiveReports. It may not be possible to easily migrate to ActiveReports 19 due to various design changes that took place between versions.

  We’ll recommend creating a new sample in ActiveReports 19 to familiarize yourself with the newer ActiveReports versions.

  • To use ActiveReports 19, you’ll first need to download and install it from the installer here: https://developer.mescius.com/activereports/download-version-history.
  • After this opening VisualStudio 2022 should prompt you with various templates for ActiveReports 19, you can go ahead and select the ActiveReports Winforms in VB.NET template to get started.
  • In the template, you’ll be provided with an RDLX report by default, which is getting previewed in the Viewer integrated to the Form using ‘viewer.Load’ method.
  • To learn about designing your reports in ActiveReports 19, you can refer to:
    • Report Authors
    • Developers
    • Samples

  For detailed documentation on ActiveReports 19 concepts, you may refer to: ActiveReports 19 User Guide.

  However, if you still like to give migrating your reports from v2 to v19 a try, then you may refer to the following references, then we’ll first suggest upgrading to ActiveReports 16 as it has detailed steps on upgrading from v2, then migrate to v19:

  • Migrate from ActiveReports 2 COM
  • ActiveReports 2 COM versus ActiveReports 16.
  • ActiveReports File Converter
  • Migrate to ActiveReports 16.
  • Breaking Changes.
  • Then to migrate from ActiveReports 16 to 19 you may refer to https://developer.mescius.com/activereportsnet/docs/latest/online/activereports-version-compatibility-migration.html.

  Hope this helps! However, if you feel stuck at any point please feel free to create a case which describes your issue and we’ll be happy to help!

  Regards,
  
  Anand