migrate old Crystal Reports from CR 11 to CR 13 on Windows server 2012

[Former Member]

We have a bunch of old crystal reports that we created with Crystal Reports XI (release 2). The Crystal Reports Runtime engine is version 11. Now we are upgrading our servers from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2012. We found out that those old reports would not run any more. We were told that Windows Server 2012 needs new version of Crystal Report runtime engine like version 13. We downloaded the new version of runtime and installed on our machines, but we still could not make those reports up running. My question is what is the proper way to make those reports run correctly on windows server 2012? Do we have to recompile those reports with newer version of Business Object as well? If so, what will be version that we need to buy?

[DellSC · Accepted solution]

To add to what Don said, depending on which part of the XI SDK you used, you may have to re-write it. If you just used the XI .NET SDK, it should recompile with a few tweaks. If you used the RDC, XI was the last version of the SDK where it was available, so you'll have to upgrade your application to use the .NET SDK.

You can download the latest version of the SDK from here: https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Crystal+Reports%2C+Developer+for+Visual+Studio+Downloads

There are still some tweaks you'll need to make to ensure that the report stays in session, but there is sample code available for how to do this.

-Dell

[Former Member]

Thank you Don and Dell! That is what we figured out. We have been using .Net SDK since VS 2005. Now we are on VS 2015. I downloaded the new SDK; opened several reports and saved into the new format. They all seems working fine at this moment.

[former_member11696]

Did you create an application to run the 11 reports or are you running them from CR Designer?

If you wrote the application then you need to open it in Visual Studio and rebuild it using the CR 13 runtime.

Don