I would like to extract the SQL queries from Crystal Report .rpt files, is there a way to do this?

Question

I would like to extract the SQL queries from Crystal Report .rpt files, is there a way to do this?

I don\'t have any of the Crystal Reports products, just the .rpt files

Answer 1

JoshL's answer worked for several of my reports, but not all of them. The following method, using ReportClientDocument.RowsetController.GetSQLStatement, was able to extract some of the queries that the other method missed.

foreach (string file in Directory.GetFiles("c:\\projects\\Reports", "*.rpt"))
{
    Console.WriteLine(String.Format("Processing {0}...", file));
    var doc = new CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument();
    doc.Load(file);

    var controller = doc.ReportClientDocument.RowsetController;

    var groupPath = new CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.DataDefModel.GroupPath();
    string temp = String.Empty;
    string commandSql = controller.GetSQLStatement(groupPath, out temp);
    //TODO: do something with commandSql
}