i need to know the difference between Crystal Reports and Visual Studio Report Viewer? is IIS needed by both of them? which shall i use? which one is free?
I have to develop winform applications which would only work and report locally.
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I develop a Visual Basic application under Visual Studio and I use Crystal Report to generate the reports. Now I have to distribute the application with other users but without installing Visual Studio or Crystal Report.
I searched on the internet, I found tracks but I can not solve the problem (I do not find the crystal files reports in the Merge Modules folder) or I do not do things correctly.
I use: Visual studio 2010, Crystal Report 2010 (64 bits)
In case of web app you nedd to install crystal report redistributable on web server.
In windows app you need add crystal reports in the prerequisites section
I've created a bunch of RPT files and we've been using Business Objects to run them against our sql db using a different param's for each rpt file to generate a pdf.
Is there an api I can use to run these reports?
I've downloaded and installed crystal reports for visual studio, but (1) I'm not sure which dll's I need to add to accomplish this and (2) I can't find any documentation or sample code -- can anyone point me in the right direction?
I'm not quite sure what you are trying to accomplish, your question is not very clear. If you are looking for a program to view the reports in, SAP has a free version of the Crystal Reports Viewer available here. If you want to create applications to run your reports in, you will need something like Visual Studio, which lets you create Windows Forms or Web Applications to embed your Crystal Reports in.
EDIT: To add Crystal Reports to Visual Studio you will first need to download the runtime from SAP. Most commom runtimes can be found here. Then you will have to add the CR to your toolbox in VS by choosing Tools -> choose Toolbox items. Make sure the .NET Frameworks Components tab is selected and scroll to the CrystalReport items. Check the items you want to add (CrystalReportViewer for sure) and click OK. After that the CR Viewer should be available to you in the Reporting section of your toolbox.
I am using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and I want to publish a C# application which contains a SQL Server database and Crystal Reports. I have tried deploying the project with setup project and using SQL Server 2005 and Crystal Reports as prerequisites but it still doesn't work.
make sure to install the Crystal reports runtime on the client's machine, then the reports will work as well. If there is no crystal reports installed they will not work on client's machine.
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I need to deploy one or more existing reports created in SSRS from a C# Visual Studios project without using a report server? The project we are working on only needs 3 reports and the project lead feels that establishing a report server is not justified.
We are working with Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. Please help.
So you want to generate your reports without the report server ?
If so, your best (but not recommander option) is to convert rdl files (your reports) to rdlc files (client reporting) and use them with the ReportViewer control (WebForms/WinForms). Depending in your implementation, it can be quite difficultt to do.
Here is a sample from MSDN.
We had our Crystal Reports report sheets in 2008 working and when we moved to 2010, some of them which their datasources were binded to dataset and datatables are not working. Anyone knows of a reason? Thanks
Happened to me too. Basically there is a new CR for VS 2010 that you need to install it manually. It used to be come in the box with VS but not for VS2010. You need to do code changes. Word of caution to pay attention to the 64 or 32 bit CR.
You can download it http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/crystalreports-dotnet
In case you're looking for Crystal Reports for VS 2010, look here: http://www.businessobjects.com/jump/xi/crvs2010/us2_default.asp
You'll need one of the first two downloads to install Crystal Reports into Visual Studio. Then you'll need one of the other downloads to distribute the runtime files. For example, if you're hosting a web application on a 64-bit server, you'll need to run the last download in the list on that server.