Hi John,
I was aware MS is moving to ODBC, seems to be the standard now and supports cross platforms.
So if Microsoft says don't use OLE DB then don't use it. Use ODBC as the data source for your dataset and simply set the report to the dataset.
rpt.SetDataSource(ds);
Is all you need to do.
CR doesn't care what you use to get your data into a dataset, as long as it's all there CR will use it.
Report can be designed off tables and the above will still work...
Don