Crystal report viewer appears as Gray

Hi everyone,
I am using Crystal report 11.5 and when i call from .net 2008 to view then all its detail section appears gray.I can print the report and I can see all report detail section in printed page.Also when i export report to pdf then it shows all data in pdf. only crystal report itself not showing anything, it shows only gray detail section.
Can anyone help me in this issue.
Thanks,
Moazzam

Crystal Reports 11.5 is not supported on VS 2008. See the wiki [Which Crystal Reports assembly versions are supported in which versions of Visual Studio .NET|https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/WhichCrystalReportsassemblyversionsaresupportedinwhichversionsofVisualStudio+.NET] for more details.
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