Visual Studio 2008 Crystal Reports

Question

 

Is there a way to target reports written with Visual Studio 2005 Crystal Reports .Net? 

 

 I have some developers using VS 2005 and some who would like to use VS2008, but the Crystal Version is different between the two studios and installing both versions of VS 2005 and 2008 installs two versions if Crystal using the same namespace. 

 

What would be the easiest way to continue to support Crystal Reports written in VS2005  in VS2008?

 

Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi,

 

Just open your Crystal Reports application written in VS 2005 with VS2008. VS2008 will perform the conversion automatically, and the converted application will work well in VS2008.

 

Answer 2

Thanks for the info.  I guess what I meant to say is that I need to continue supporting the version of Crystal Reports that is in VS 2005 in both VS 2008 and VS 2005.  Once I convert crystal reports to the version in VS 2008 I can no longer work on in it in VS 2005.

 

Is there a way to upgrade the version of Crystal Reports in VS 2005 to the version in VS 2008?

 

Answer 3

There is no way that you can do this.  The only way to upgrade the version of Crystal Reports within Visual Studio is to buy a full version of Crystal Reports.  Unfortunately there is no version currently available that will upgrade the version included in VS 2008.  Once they have one you could upgrade to that version in both your VS 2005 and VS 2008 environments.

Answer 4

I want to do something similiar to the original request.  We have Crystal Reports written in CR version 10 and being utilized by an engine written in Visual Studio 2005 Framework 2.0 with Crystal Merge modules 10.2  Can I upgrade the engine to Visual Studio 2008 Framework 3.5 and still use the 10.2 merge modules instead of whatever is included with the new VS.  The reason being, we have full blown Crystal 10 packages and I want the engine to use the same version as the Crystal developers are using.

 

Answer 5

If you are going to develop with VS 2008 you need to deploy with the version of Crystal included with VS 2008.

Answer 6

 

I'm currently using the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio 2008, and it doesn't appear to have Crystal Reports included.  I have the full version of Crystal Reports XIR2, and am successfully creating applications that target the version 11.5 assemblies.

 

I am planning to move to Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite, and I will try installing it without the integrated Crystal Reports version so as to maintain backward compatability.

 

Has anyone had any success doing it this way?

Answer 7

Hello,

I have installed  Visual Studio 2008 Team System and I don't see any option to install Crystal Reports ?!

At install time, the options I see are these:

+Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008
   + Language Tools
   + Enterprise Tools
   +Dotfuscator Community Edition
   +Tools for Redistributing Applications
   +Team Developer and Tester Tools
   +Team Database Edition

Please help.

Answer 8

What edition are you installing?