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Crystal Reports for Visual Studio

Design and deliver reports with Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio

Crystal Reports for Visual Studio provides developers with a fast and productive way to create and integrate presentation-quality reports into applications, without leaving the familiar Visual Studio development environment. It also enables them to easily create interactive reports for enterprise web and smart client applications that scale to meet the demands of end users. Crystal Reports Basic is embedded in Visual Studio 2008 (NEW), 2005 and 2003.

Why Crystal Reports for Visual Studio?

Easily upgrade to Crystal Reports 2008 for new powerful developer features
Easily create reports directly within your choice of familiar application development environments
Increase productivity using Crystal Reports' powerful report creation, integration and delivery tools in your application, instead of hand coding
Deliver Web based interactive, highly graphical reports on any device through an XML Web Services model
Distribute pixel-perfect reports in rich-client Windows environments
Access reports contained within the BusinessObjects Enterprise framework when upgrading to Crystal Reports Server or BusinessObjects Enterprise

Learn more about upgrading to Crystal Reports 2008.

Technical Specifications

Version:

2008

Product Editions:

Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio

Data Sources:

ODBC, OLE DB, Access, Excel, ADO.NET, CDO, IDataReader, DAO, RDO, XML and File based data sources

License Model:

When using Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio .Net you may:
Design reports for use in .NET applications
Design reports for thick-client Windows applications
Design reports for server applications
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System Requirements

Product Prerequisites

Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio 2008 is bundled with Visual Studio 2008.

Processor:

1.6MGHz

Memory:

384MB RAM

Disk Space:

1.3GB

Operating Systems:

Window 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista

Platform Support:

Windows

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Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio is embedded in Visual Studio 2008 (NEW), 2005 and 2003. It is not available for purchase as a standalone product.

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Key Features

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Design-time preview

Design Time Preview lets you view a read-only version of the Crystal report with its default data. Data will preview regardless of a database logon failure or whether the report uses application data (for example, DataSets, or object collections).

Crystal Reports project templates

Crystal Report project templates are available for Visual Basic, C#, and J# Windows applications and Web Sites. The project templates create a default Crystal Reports project and start the New Report Creation Wizard to help new users create reports.

CrystalReportParts viewer

CrystalReportParts viewer lets you deliver strategic pieces of information such as a summary, grid, or chart without having to display an entire report. The CrystalReportParts viewer control displays report summary information in a small, portal-like window, with the ability to drill down on the report through a series of linked parts.

SQL Server 2005

Crystal Reports now supports hierarchical fields, such as User Defined Types (UDT) and XML fields, in SQL Server 2005. A hierarchical field can be consumed and grouped on to create a dynamic hierarchical grouping structure within the report.