Crystal report developer version for Visual studio

[Former Member]

We have .net project developed in visual studio 2008 and reports in Crystal report 9.

Our application server is migrating to windows server 2012 and as Crystal report 9 does not have support for 2012 server we decided to migrate report in Crystal report 2013. We are developing reports in Crystal report 2013. I would like to know whether Crystal report developer version for Visual studio is FREEEWARE or LICENSED. Also How will be the approach to integrate new reports as i am new to Crystal report. Do i need to add new reference of Crystal report dll?

[former_member11696 · Accepted solution]

Hi Aditya,

The runtime for CR is no longer installed with Crystal Reports.

Go here to get CR for VS that integrates into VS 2010 or above:

https://blogs.sap.com/2010/12/07/sap-crystal-reports-developer-version-for-microsoft-visual-studio-u...

First link is to integrate into VS and all others are for REDIST ONLY, do not install them on your DEV PC.

There is a link to the licensing PDF also.

https://archive.sap.com/documents/docs/DOC-21575

Don

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Don,

Thank you for your reply.

I have one query.

Our crystal report developer is developing reports in Crystal report 2013.

So i just replaced the existing report with new reports and now i am getting 'loadsavereportexception load report failed exception'.

I installed Crystal report 2013 in my application server still i am getting error.

This error didn't came when i installed Crystal report 9 on my application server.

[former_member11696]

As I said....

The runtime for CR is no longer installed with Crystal Reports.

You have to use the runtime I linked above and rebuild and redistribute your application.