Crystal Reports Creating a Dynamic Report as a Table from a List

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     I'm really new to Crystal Reports, and I'd be lying if I were to say it
hasn't been a struggle. I work as a Software Engineer at a home
automation company, and for 8 months I created an maintained their
reporting system. All of which was done in ActiveReports by Data
Dynamics. Now I'm working on a private project and only have a license
to use Crystal Reports.

I'd be happy to buy the book if I could be sure it will have the information I need, here is what I'm trying to do:

I
have a Dictionary containing an object that I have created (All the data is local, no connecting to a SQL Server). The object
is basically a data set. It has tons of member variables, and
getter/setter functions for them, and thats it. What I would like to do
is be able to display columns and rows similar to Excel that display
selected pieces of the information in those objects for different
reports. If possible it would also be nice to be able to export these
reports to Excel.

I have been looking around for about a week,
and I cannot seem to find a simple solution for creating dynamic
reports. Ideally I'd like to be able to create the report dynamically
and fill in the fields as required for each report. If I can avoid having to create .rpt files it would be great! Can this be done,
and does the book explain how to do this?

Thanks in advance.

-Trix