Is there any IDE for crystal report?

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have developed a windows application using .net and crystal report..

Now I want to install an IDE such that I can edit the crystal reports as per individual client's requirenment..

My Development Environment..

--Visual Studio 2010,

--Crystal report runtime -13 - 32 bit

Hence, Is there any IDE to to so?

Regards,

Mahesh Lalwani

[former_member188030]

Uninstall CR runtimes 32 bit which you have installed on your developer machine, runtimes are only required while deployment.

Install Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 on top of Visual Studio 2010, which will install bundled Crystal designer inside Visual Studio IDE where you could create / edit Crystal reports.

Thanks,

Bhushan.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply,

I have done my development, and I am talking about client machine where I want to edit the crystal report as per client's requirement.

I don't think on client machine there is any need to install visual studio..

Regards,

Mahesh Lalwani

[former_member188030]

If you want a Crystal designer installed on the client machine AND you are using CR for VS 2010 (which is a bundled crystal designer) you need VS 2010 to be installed as CR for VS 2010 gets integrated with it (not a saparate designer).

You may install another Crystal Reports version on the client machine if you want (CR 2008, 2011).

But it is not advisable as you would need to again upgrade the reports to CR for VS 2010 as you are using 13.0 runtimes.

Bhushan.

[Former Member]

Hi,

In any case I don't find its an good idea to install visual studio 2010 on client machine as it doesn't make any sense,

See, we have used many software which is build from .net and crystal report atleast I have, In to that they allow us to edit the crystal report by installing crystal report IDE or designer for that..

Now, Can't I use something like that as my client obviously won't allow me to install loaded software like visual studio..

[former_member188030]

Crystal Reports designer is the only tool which can be used to edit the Crystal reports.

So to edit the reports you would need to install CR designer on the cliet machine.

If you are willing to use CR for VS 2010 then you would need to use Visual Studio because it does not install a pararate CR designer but an integrated CR designer with VS IDE.

As I have mentioned earlier other versions of CR could be used are CR 2008 or CR 2011.

Apart from this I done think there is any other solution.

Bhushan.

[saurabh_pathak]

Hi Mahesh,

If your clients won't allow you to use loaded softwares like VS then opt for standalone like Crystal Reports 2008 or Crystal Reports 2011 which will help you editing the reports and they have no dependencies with the Visual Studio.

If you think this is still not feasible, then there is no other solutions.

Hope it helps.

- Saurabh

[former_member183750]

As an FYI, CR 2008 and CR 2011 designer evals are available from here:

CR 2008

http://www.sap.com/australia/solutions/sap-business-objects/sme/freetrials/previous-versions/index.e...

CR 2011

http://www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/sme/freetrials/index.epx

- Ludek

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