Auto execution of Crystal Reports for VS 2010 report

I'm very new to crystal and I've been searching for some time and can't seem to find a solution to this. I installed Crystal Reports for VS 2010 and can run a report without any issues. What I would like to do is basically compile and EXE that when I execute it, it will refresh a report and export it in whatever format and location I specify, without showing any GUI. This seems like it should be an easy thing to accomplish, but I have had no luck yet.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Tim

Hi Tim,
See these samples:
Root Page
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/BusinessObjectsHome
Enterprise Samples (including managed and unmanaged ras)
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/BusinessObjectsSDKSampleApplications
Non-Enterprise Samples
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/CrystalReportsSDKSampleApplications
Exporting Samples (RAS)
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/NETRASSDK+Samples#NETRASSDKSamples-Exporting%2FPrinting
Just don't load the report into crystalReportviewer1 and simply export to what ever format you need.
Your users will need the CR runtime if they want to run your app. If you export to PDF or some other format then they can view the report only. Just share or e-mail the report folder.
Thank you
Don

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Crystal 2008 for VS 2010 - Report formatting issues in viewer (extra space)

Hello,
We have a Windows Form application developed in VS 2010 using the Crystal 2008 for VS 2010 runtime. We are having issue with extra spaces in text objects. For example: in a report header we have an object that has text similar to this:
This report will print a list of all Serial Numbers in the Serial Table that are missing related Serial Meter records.
When we run it within Crystal 2008 Designer, it looks great; however, when we run it from the Windows Viewer we developed, it looks like this:
This report will print a list of all Serial Numbers in the Serial Table that are missing related Serial Meter records .
The viewer places extra spaces between records and the period (.). We also noticed it places spaces in phone numbers:
952 -555-555
There's an extra space between the 2 and the dash (-).
One thing we noticed is, if you change the viewer zoom to 98%, then the extra spacing goes away.
We just upgraded to SP1 for Crystal 2008 for VS 2010 and still the same issue. We are referencing these DLLS: CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.dll, CrystalDecisions.ReportSource, CrystalDecisions.Shared, and CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms all version are 13.0.2000.0.
Any help would be great.
Thank you,
Tyler

Hi Tyler,
I copied the text from your other post into a new report and changed the fonts and previewed in my C# test app and I don't see the problem.
"We have a Windows App that we just converted to .NET 4.0 and updated the viewer to the Crystal Reports Viewer in VS 2010. When we 952-555-555 open a report that has a large block of static text in paragraphs left-aligned the spacing around punctuation is awful - there's almost a tab's worth of space between the last letter and the period. U.S. looks like US. This happens both with reports that were created in VS2008 and ones that were created in VS2010. It is only a problem in the viewer's display - if we print to a printer or export to PDF the spacing around punctuation is fine. It's also not a problem on our development workstations which are running Windows 7, but is a problem on our test servers which are running Windows 2003 Server. I ran the modules tool and found that the version of usp10.dll does match what the previous thread said it should be and it's coming from the c:\program files\sap businessobjects\crystal reports for .net framework 4.0\common\sap businessobjects enterprise xi 4.0\win32_x86\ folder. On my development machine when I run the modules tool I notice that a second instance of usp10.dll is called which is the version installed with Windows 7. We've tried changing fonts but none of the ones we've tried (originally in Times New Roman, 12, tried Arial, Times and various sizes) have made a difference. We also tried changing the print options with no improvement. The only thing that makes it slightly better is full-alignment but our customer insists that it be left-aligned."
I threw in the telephone number also you noted in this post.
I created a new report and copied the text above into a text object and then previewed. I then changed the fonts to various types and I don't see the problem.
I also used Courier New because it's a fixed font layout, meaning the same letter always uses the same amount of space, and it shows just fine also.
I've seen issues where the Video driver and screen size can affect the spacing. Usually updating the Video driver or changing your screen resolution resolves the problem.
What Video Drivers and Monitor are you using?
And What OS?
Thank you
Don

Crystal Versions for VS 2010

I would like to know which versions are available for use with Visual Studio 2010. Specifically, can both Crystal Report 13 and Crystal Reports 11 both work with Visual Studio 2010? Can I create and save a Crystal Reports 11 file and a Crystal Reports 13 file using VS2010?
I have an issue where a developer created several custom Crystal reports through Visual Studio 2010, and then saved the output as Crystal version 13 files. Our corporate accounting application uses a runtime version of Crystal Reports 11 and all standard reports work fine using this runtime version. The issues appear with the custom reports in that the print preview screens freeze when attempting to close them (after the user has printed the documents).
Please advise.

Neither Crystal 2011 or 2013 come with the SDK. There's actually very little difference between them - 2013 was primarily a "rebranding" of 2011 to go with BusinessObject 4.1.
So, you'll get the separate download for Crystal for Visual Studio (see here: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-7824) and it will work with reports designed in either version, as well as reports designed Crystal 2008 and possibly with earlier versions (back to Crystal 9) as well.
-Dell

Crystal for VS 2010 - formatting issues in viewer (extra space) again

We're having the same problem as the one in this thread link:[Crystal 2008 for VS 2010 - Report formatting issues in viewer (extra space);. There's no resolution in the thread and it's been closed. I'm hoping that creating a new thread may cause someone to answer this problem.
We have a Windows App that we just converted to .NET 4.0 and updated the viewer to the Crystal Reports Viewer in VS 2010. When we open a report that has a large block of static text in paragraphs left-aligned the spacing around punctuation is awful - there's almost a tab's worth of space between the last letter and the period. U.S. looks like US. This happens both with reports that were created in VS2008 and ones that were created in VS2010. It is only a problem in the viewer's display - if we print to a printer or export to PDF the spacing around punctuation is fine. It's also not a problem on our development workstations which are running Windows 7, but is a problem on our test servers which are running Windows 2003 Server. I ran the modules tool and found that the version of usp10.dll does match what the previous thread said it should be and it's coming from the c:\program files\sap businessobjects\crystal reports for .net framework 4.0\common\sap businessobjects enterprise xi 4.0\win32_x86\ folder. On my development machine when I run the modules tool I notice that a second instance of usp10.dll is called which is the version installed with Windows 7. We've tried changing fonts but none of the ones we've tried (originally in Times New Roman, 12, tried Arial, Times and various sizes) have made a difference. We also tried changing the print options with no improvement. The only thing that makes it slightly better is full-alignment but our customer insists that it be left-aligned.

Re. the other thread. I never did receive a sample of the report to test with. Perhaps I can get one from you? I need you to ensure that the issue occurs with a "saved data" report. If it does, let me know if you can share it and I'll contact you via email. My comment in the other thread re. available time, priorities, etc., still applies. Also, just to be clear. Service Pack 2 for CRVS2010 is closed now. Thus if I am able to reproduce the issue the fix will be targeted for October \ November time frame - no guarantees though...
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Support for Crystal Report XI runtime on Windows Server 2008 R2

Hi all,
I was wondering if Crystal report XI runtime is supported on Windws Server 2008 R2.
I've found this url http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e06b8953-a62b-2d10-38b9-ca71f747e2b1?QuickLink=index&overridelayout=true&59511066859035
We are develping with .Net framework 2.0.
Thanks in advance.
Regards.
Roberto.

Hi Roberto,
By 'Crystal report XI runtime' if you mean CR 11.0, then it is not supported with Windws Server 2008 R2.
See the compatibility chart.
http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?original_fqdn=wiki.sdn.sap.com&pageId=56787567
The link you have referred is for Crystal Reprots for VS 2010 / 2012 / 2013 which is the lates version of CR which provides the SDK.
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-7824
- Bhushan
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How to set Crystal Report command timeout in runtime ?

Hi, All !
I have a report that is generating timeout error during execution command (Crystal Report command with SQL query). How can I set timeout for the command from application code ? I am using CR 12 and C# (.NET framework 2.0)
I have investigated CommandTableClass (CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.DataDefModel.CommandTableClass) but I didn't find timeout property or simething like that.
Please help.
Thank you in advance.
Edited by: Bonowow on Feb 24, 2010 11:38 AM
Edited by: Bonowow on Feb 24, 2010 11:42 AM

I do not believe there is such an API. How long does it take before you get the timeout?
Ludek

Unicode with Crystal Report for VS 2010

Dear,
Please help me, I have a big problem with Khmer Unicode to preview in Crystal Report IV 4.0 for Visual Studio 2010.
(I mean that it shows incorrect fonts), but when I use VS 2008, I always use CRAXTTRD.dll to render Khmer Unicode font, and In the new version of Crystal Report in VS 2010, I don't know how to find CRAXTTRD.dll to privewer reports.
so what can I do, please give the resolve for me, help.
Thanks in advanced, and I looking for your reply.
Sochinda

OK, once again, you cannot use that dll in VS 2008 or VS 2010. End of story.
Use our .NET Assemblies and RAS to replace the RDC.
There are plenty of samples in the below links:
Root Page
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/BusinessObjectsHome
Enterprise Samples (including managed and unmanaged ras)
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/BusinessObjectsSDKSampleApplications
Non-Enterprise Samples
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/CrystalReportsSDKSampleApplications
Exporting Samples (RAS)
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/NETRASSDK+Samples#NETRASSDKSamples-Exporting%2FPrinting
IF you have any questions please post a new question, but search first and use the developers Help files for more info on each.
Managed RAS is to connect to a Business Objects Enterprise Server, you can remove that part of the code if it's there.
Unmanaged RAS is what you'll be using.
Thank you
Don

Crystal Report not listed Add New Item for Visual Studio 2010

I just finished installing cryestal report for visual studio 2010.
During the installation a visual studio error dialog popped up "Operation cannot be completed. Access Denied", the crystal report installation continued and was informed that the installation was successful.
But on opening my visual studio project to add new item, crystal report item is not listed there.
Is there anything that needs to be done to get it listed in the Add New Item dialog for visual studio?

I wonder what file you ran to install CRVS2010? Was it the MSI as opposed to the actual install file?
The link to the correct install is here:
http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_13_0_2.exe
Is that the file you ran to install CRVS2010? E.g. as opposed to:
http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_redist_install_32bit_13_0_2.zip
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Crystal Report for VS 2010 Installation Problems

So I have been trying to get this working for 2 days now without luck. I work for a software development company and we have slowly started to migrate some of our solutions from VS2005 to VS2010. The solution I'm currently working on was originally developed in VS2005. We've migrated it to VS2010 and now want to add a reporting module which needs to make use of Crystal Reports.
I have downloaded CR from the following site: [HERE|http://www.businessobjects.com/jump/xi/crvs2010/us2_default.asp] using the "SAP Crystal Reports, version for Visual Studio 2010 - " download link ([http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_13_0.exe]). I have both VS2005, VS2010, Crystal Report 2008 (which has no issues) installed on my machine. In terms of .NET Framework 4 the following shows up on my "Programs"
Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile
Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Extended
Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Multi-Targeting Pack
The machine is a 32bit Windows 7 Professional installation with 2.00GB of RAM. When I run the installer (as administrator) the WinRAR self extractors run as follows:
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The operation then break with a popup telling me to look at the information window.
Any help with this would be highly appreciated as I am already more than 2 days of development time behind on this.
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Crystal Reports for VS 2010 corrupts "some" Thai chars on PDF Export

Any Thai character that contains a symbol above it (like an umlat in English) gets corrupted when exporting a report to PDF, yet the same report can be exported to Excel or Word without any issue.
See the following character - once with a symbol above one without:
ล้ ล
The PDF file will not display the first character - instead it displays the second character overlayed on a box (like you get when the font does not contain the required character)
If I create a text field in the Crystal designer, it does the same thing - but when I right click and edit, it displays correctly - until I click out of the field when the problem returns. So this suggests the problem is before the PDF export and maybe with the designer - but then why does it work if i export to Word?
I have tried may different fonts - including those specifically recommended and used by the Thais, but all have the same issue.
My work around at the moment is to use Word instead of PDF, as I do not believe there is a configuration change I can make that will resolve the issue, but would love to hear otherwise.
I am using Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 version 13 running on Windows 7 x64. I have a beta 2 download of v14, but it requires a key code which i do not have, so as yet ahave been unable to verify if this issue is resolved in that version.
if anyone knows otherwise, please let me know
Cheers
Jed

Thanks Don,
(Good to know that version 13 I am running is the correct one)
I have tried many UTF-8 fonts, with largely similar results, but this testing here is with Cordia New - a font largely aimed at Thai Language and the one our Thai customers always use.
I have confirmed that right click and export from the IDE still shows the box on certain characters - but note that the box does not replace these characters (as would be the case if they were missing) but rather overlays them - which is why my subject includes the word 'corrupt'
All testing so far in on my Windows 7 development machine - so no user issues are involved
The code if fairly simple at this stage - define and load a data set - then link it to the report and use the built in export to disk functions:
                OutboundSummary rpt = new OutboundSummary();
                rpt.SetDataSource(outboundSummary);
                string tempDir = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("TEMP") + "
                string filename = tempDir + DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH-mm-ss");
                rpt.ExportToDisk(ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat, filename + ".pdf");
                rpt.ExportToDisk(ExportFormatType.WordForWindows, filename + ".doc");
If anyone wanted to verify, here is a piece of Thai text that will show the problem
ผลรวมแฟกซ์ที่ยังอยู่ในคิว
To better illustrate the problem, the attached image will help
[IMG]http://i55.tinypic.com/hweh42.jpg[/IMG]
I am coming to the conclusion that perhaps these characters are not single characters - at least do not appear as such with each font - and perhaps Windows does some magic to make them appear correctly. I can see that Word automatically converts them to a suitable font - i.e. a mixed language text file imports into word with different fonts for different languages - and you cannot change the font to one that does not support the language. I can specify Arial from Crystal which does not contain thai characters at all - but export to word and they show correctly.
Crystal spits the data out and Word converts it correctly, but acrobat does not - so maybe it is their fault?
I have all language packs on my machine - and doing Chinese next suggests that even if I find a thai font that worked, it would not work in chinese, so am thinking word or rtf might be the winner.
Cheers
Jed

Crystal Reports for VS 2010 Keeps asking to convert how to stop it?

I have converted a Web Application from VS2008 to VS2010. I downloaded and installed the VS2010 Visual Studio version and the conversion seems to have gone alright and after the conversion a dialog box came up to ask if I wanted to convert Crystal reports from a previous version to 2010. I said yes and everything seems to work including the reports in the converted site.
However, now every time I open the solution in VS2010 the same dialog box pops up asking me if I want to convert the Crystal Reports to version 2010. I saw an other similar question by a user but the answers he got were not applicable to my sutuation.
The environment we have is TFS 2010 based and I created a new branch of the solution in quetsion and did the conversion using VS2010 as described above.
It may be that I have to make some manula changes to some files to set a flag that the reports are already converted? I may have to do this manually?
So the question is how do I get rid of / disable the dialog box asking me to convert each time.
P.S. I saw references to a beta version on Crystal Reports for VS2010 I have never had this on my computer. However, I do have both VS2008 and Crystral Reports 2008 and VS2010 and Crystal Reports 2010 loaded on my computer and I will need both installed for the time being until conversion to VS2010 is complete.

All I need to know is what it is that the CR for 2010 software looks at to determine that an upgrade is required.
- Not as simple as that. There are all kinds of variables that may cause the issue; from runtime, to references to web.config to VS2010 and so on...
1) make sure the config file has only assemblies of version 13.x referenced.
2) download the [Modules|https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/012002523100006252802008E/modules.zip] utility and see if your project is loading any older versions of CR runtime
3) uninstall CRVS2010, do a repair on VS2010, reinstall CRVS2010
- Ludek
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Crystal Reports 2010 in IIS 7.5 asking for authentication

Hi,
We're in the process of moving from 2003 IIS 6 Web servers to 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5.
We also have a Windows 2008 server running IIS 7 and everything works fine on this server.
On the new servers when we go to our crystal reports viewer page we get prompted for windows authentication, then if you type in valid credentials or not you get the following error in firefox
XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: http://192.168.10.112/Reports/ReportViewer.aspx?id=49
Line Number 1, Column 1:
^
In IE you just get a blank screen
The same code runs fine in debug mode on the server in Visual Studio 2010, and works fine on our other servers
Thanks
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Hi,
We've fixed the problem, but we have no idea why, we tryed using SSL to connect to the site and it worked. It never used to require SSL to run?
Thanks

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I want to welcome everyone. It's my first post on this forum.
I want to provide my Windows Form application to a client. This application was written in VS 2010 and it uses SAP Crystal Reports for generating simple report.
I've read [Crystal Reports Licensing Explained|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/index?rid=/library/uuid/10cd9e15-120d-2c10-3fb5-be299000b6b7&utm_source=crvs2010&utm_medium=lp&utm_campaign=licensing_explained] pdf and I've learnt that in my case redistribution of software that embeds the Crystal Reports runtime engine is free.
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Marcin

Hello Marcin,
Welcome.
Please note that whenever you distribute your application (which uses Crystal reports) to others who may not have Crystal designer product, you need to provide the runtimes along with the application. The runtimes provide the necessary dlls in the machine for running Crystal inside the app.
You can use an exe to install the CR runtimes and then deploy your app. OR you can include the msm files and create a deployment package.
You will get the runtimes for CR4VS2010 [here|/people/coy.yonce/blog/2010/11/12/crystal-reports-for-visual-studio-2010-production-release-now-availableCystlR%2528SAPWeblogs%253ACrystal+Reports%2529].
You might want to check [this|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/oss_notes_boj/sdn_oss_boj_dev/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/scn_bosap/notes%7B6163636573733d36393736354636443646363436353344333933393338323636393736354637333631373036453646373436353733354636453735364436323635373233443330333033303331333233313335333833323336%7D.do] link for details.
Forgot to mention:
we have dependency on C++ runtimes. Please look at [this|Visual studio setup project with merge modules - C++ problem; thread for details or do a quick search, in this forum.
Hope it helps.
Thanks.
Edited by: A G on Dec 2, 2010 6:03 PM

Image Quality In Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010

I am using the new production release of Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 and I am having an issue with image quality when adding an image to a crystal report.
The image itself is a .TIF file, and when opened in Windows, the quality of the image, which is mostly text, is very high. The image was created from a electronic PDF form and I intend to use this as a background for the crystal report, over which I will place data fields.
As soon as the image is added to the report you can see the degradation in quality in the design window and in the preview window within visual studio. The quality remains low when viewing the report in the WPF report viewer and when printing from this control.
I have ensured the "Retain Original Image Color Depth" option is checked but this has made no difference (the image is black and white anyway).
The image in the report has been left at its native size, no resizing at all. The image is 355KB in size if that's relevant.
Is there a reason the image looses quality when added to a report? Is it being compressed? More importantly, is there a way to make the image retain its native quality when adding it to a crystal report?
Thanks in advance.

The following image is the image I am trying to display. Although imageshack has converted it to a png, if you right click and save the image you can open it and zoom in with little image degradation.
http://img132.imageshack.us/i/j301.png
The following is a screen shot of how the tif file looks in the designer when zooming in:
http://img138.imageshack.us/i/j30lowquantity.jpg
The second image has lost its clarity and is unusable when printing.
I hope this helps.

CRVS2010 Beta - Report Viewer Errors for Crystal Reports in VS 2010

I have a project that was written in VS 2008 targeting the 3.5 framework which contains a ton of Crystal Reports. I recieved my new license for VS 2010 and did the install along with the Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. I converted my project over successfully. I am able to open up the reports on their own. When I try to save them they want to be converted to the new format. This also works fine. My problem is the Crystal Reports Viewer. I am not able to add any reports to the viewer without receiving error messages. I have tried using the 10.5 and the latest version of the viewer, but receive errors everytime that I try to add a report to it. I always recevie the following error:
"Error invoking 'Choose a Crystal Report...'. Details: Invalid Report Source"
I have also tried just creating a brand new report from the Crystal Report Viewer Tasks window. When I do that I get this error:
"Unable to find the report in the manifest resources. Please buld the project, and try again." "Error invoking 'Create a New Crystal Report...'. Details: Unable to find the report in the mnifest resources. Please build the project, and try again."
I have tried changed the framework target to 4.0, but this has not helped. I have tried using the 14.0 versions of the references and the 10.5 versions. I have searched all over the internet for a resolution, but can't seem to find one. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am having the same problem. You say make sure all of my assemblies are version 14. Three questions:
1. Now that I have removed all of the old Crystal assemblies from my project, what are the assemblies that I need to add back?
2. My VS 2010 "add references" popup shows me many crystal assembles (Crystal XI is also installed) which ones to I need to install now?
3. If I don't know what they are, or where to find them, how do I determine their version?
You solution reminds me of the old saying "If I had ham, I could make ham and eggs. If I had eggs!"
More information please,
J Rich
Edited by: JosephRich on Nov 6, 2010 5:36 PM
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