Change Visual Studio 2008 crystal reports version to 11

Question

Visual Studio 2008 comes with CR basic 10.5
My Client has full version 11 and for some reasons I would like to have the same versions in development as my client has.
So the question is: Can CR in Visual Studio be upgraded in a way that version 11 is used in development?

Greetz,
Owin

Answer 1

Owin,

NO

Crystal reports version XI will not work with Visual Studio 2008 I presume because of internal conflicts caused by the bundling of Version 10.5.

I have to ask though why you need this, is it because the client want's to edit reports externally and the applcaition then isn't able to display them?

If so the way I got around this was to use VS2005 and create a dll for the Crystal Functions in version XI then re-encorporate the dll into the Vs2008 projectas a reference.
This works fine and allows you to use VXI with VS2008 in a roundabout fashion.

Regards

Rupert

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Answer 2

Hey Rupert,

Sounds good.
I just dont know how to:
- create a dll for the Crystal Functions in version XI
- re-encorporate the dll into the Vs2008 (You mean a reference in the Solution itself)

Can you eleborate a bit on this?

Thanx,
Owin