Report Application Server .NET SDK Developer Guide

Serializable Object Models in Report Application Server

RAS is the preferred solution to manage Crystal Reports in a web farm and web garden scenario, because RAS consists of two components that are each suited to an out-of-process framework:

The ReportClientDocument class

The ReportClientDocument class is the wrapper class for the report and the entry point to the ReportClientDocument object model. It is also serializable. So, the ReportClientDocument class can be persisted to the out-of-process Session State server.

The reporting server

The reporting server stores and run the .rpt file, out of process.

This pairing of the serializable ReportClientDocument class on the Session State server, with the .rpt file on the out-of-process reporting server, provides the ideal solution to share report information across multiple ASP.NET worker processes.

Serializable Object Models in Report Application Server

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