Crystal Reports using Visual Studio

I am becoming more comfortable with working with Crystal Reports using Visual Studio. I ran into some issues, but I was able to figure them out. I have ran into one which I am not able to figure out. I would like for you to ask Business Objects if they can assist me on this one. When the reports are displayed, a group tree is displayed to the left of the report making it possible for users to navigate through the reports. As you continue to click down through a branch, eventually you are not able to see what to click on or to click on the next link. What could be done to fix this issue?

Hi,
Have you checked the crystal report in designer mode? If not, try doing it.
Further, you can provide following:
1)Windows or Web Application?
2) Version of Crystal Reports?
3) Version of Visual Studio?
4) OS (32 bit or 64 bit)?
Thanks,
Saurabh

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Using Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2008 in C++/CLI

How can I use Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2008 for creating WinForm Application written in C++/CLI under VS2008 ?

Can you repost your last response in English?
Also, check out this post
Read Before Posting - Where to find Crystal Reports .NET SDK resources
It has links to our Crystal Reports resources for .NET.
Edited by: Jason Everly on Apr 22, 2009 9:07 AM

156" width Crystal Report with Visual Studio 2005

Post Author: kunchesm
CA Forum: .NET
Hi,
I have a requirement to design a 156" width report (for exporting to Excel). And naturally i dont have printers to support this huge width reports (as these reports are not used for printing but just for exporting to Excel).
One of the option which i have tried to design these reports is -
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Now, my question... is there any better alternative or option to design huge width Crystal reports in Visual studio 2005? Any help in this regard is highly appreciated!
Thanks & Regards
ksm

Hi Ganesh,
So it all depends on how you created your WEB Project. If it was a CR Web App then no issues, if it was a WEB Form app then no issues except you need to copy the whole folder: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\VS2013WebsiteCR\aspnet_client
to your app folder, maybe...
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Hello,
I use both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 on same PC. I can not work with dbf files (format foxpro2x, dbase IV) in VS 2005 and VS 2008.
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Hi Ludek,
1-For dbase file to work you need have permission on database files for IIS as well as user accessing the database.
2-For re-install you need to insert the CD of visual studio setup then do custom install and then try to choose crystal reports for re-installing
3-The old viewer might cause the problem. In this case can you try connecting to a blank dbase file.
and for such issues we have a special forum [here|SAP Crystal Reports, version for Visual Studio;
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Hitesh Mangtani

Crystal report for visual studio 2005 dblogin problem

Dear Sir,
I am using Visual Studio 2005 and crystal reports for visual studio 2005 and sql server 2000.
When I am running the project from my pc where it was developed and a local server with server authentication, report is opening but from client machine there is a new screen come before opening the report asking for login issue. my reports has subreports
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(i am sorry bcoz screenshort is not attaching so I write above what in the diagloag box for you)
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You know, this forum is for controls, apis, components for the user interface Windows Forms.
Unlucky enough, Microsoft does not support Crystal reports anymore for many years.
Try the Crystal reports forum for .Net
http://scn.sap.com/community/crystal-reports-for-visual-studio
Success
Cor

Crystal Reports for Visual Studio and (Wcf) Web Services

I´m evaluating Crystal reports for Visual Studio 2010. I want to read data from a (Wcf) Webservice into the predefined Reports and deliver them to the Users in an ASP.NET Application. As far as I see reading Webservices via the XML/Webservice datasource works good in the Crystal Reports 2011 Applications - But I have Problems with the Integration of the XML/Webservice datasource in the CRVS2010 Environment.
I read your Article on sdn: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/13732
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Hi Henrik,
First of all you didn't make any mistake installing CRVS2010. It has assemblies with version 13.x
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http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/crystal-xcelsius-support?rid=/webcontent/uuid/d01fdad8-44e5-2d10-61ad-9d2d4158f3a8
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Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 runtime LICENCE

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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Hello Marcin,
Welcome.
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Image Quality In Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010

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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.

Need help in creating table in crystal report for visual studio 2010

Since there is no table support in crystal report,how can I create a table in crystal report for visual studio 2010?
I have a datatable and I need to show that in crystal report in table structure.
I have tried using lines and boxes to generate the table but it is not working perfectly.
How can I export the report in excel format in read/write mode saving all the formatting in the report

Hi,
Check sample codes from following:
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/CrystalReportsSDKSampleApplications
You can download the [Developer's Guide|http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31/en/crsdk_net_dg_12_en.chm] & [API Guide|http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31/en/crsdk_net_apiRef_12_en.chm]
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Hi ,
When I tried Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 SP2 , I saw a new feature which allows user to copy content of the report after selecting it. I am using .net 4.0 winform application. I want to suppress this feature. I want the selection of objects in report to work as earlier version. I could hide the copy icon in toolbar . But that doesn't change the way selections happens in the report . Please tell me how to suppress the copy feature completely when we use SP2 ?

Hi Jijo Paul,
We found a hidden method to disable the copy as it used to be. It is hidden meaning it's not supported so if you run into any problems using it or if it gets removed there is nothing we can do for you but give this a try:
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No images when deploying Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005

Post Author: wcl
CA Forum: Publishing
Developed a ASP.Net web site that uses Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005, everything works fine locally.
Following instructions from http://support.businessobjects.com/downloads/merge_modules.asp#07 a deployment package has been created using CrystalDecisionsRedist2005_x86 merge module and the website has been installed.
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Should the vs2005 key be entered some where on the remote server?

Post Author: wcl
CA Forum: Publishing
Thnakyou very much for your quick reply.
The directory has not been created by the merge module, which folder should it be created in and what contetants should it have?
<-edit>
an example of an image it can not find is "/aspnet_client/System_Web/2_0_50727/CrystalReportWebFormViewer3/images/toolbar/upd.gif", so does the folder '/aspnet_client/System_Web/2_0_50727/CrystalReportWebFormViewer3' need setting up?
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Side by side installation Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 - CRXIR2 ?

we are integrating Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 into our C++ application.
We used to work with CRXIR2.
A customer of ours has upgraded to the VS2010 runtime version for 64-bit,
and seems to be having random crashes.
We haven't been able to pinpoint the problem...
They are running several of our applications simultaniously on terminal servers.
What we noticed is that they did not uninstall CRXIR2 from there system.
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Next to that: is there any limit of concurrent users (applications) that use the .NET component?
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Bart

Hi Bart,
Side by side installation shouldn't be a problem, unless you had Beta version of CRVS2010 installed on the same machine.
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Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 - Deployment
I haven't seen any problem with 64bit next to a 32bit til date.
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http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/index?rid=/library/uuid/10d5fa88-2013-2c10-c9a5-f11963607d4e
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http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/index?rid=/library/uuid/f053713e-3e3d-2c10-2a81-f79259e54023
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Looping login screen in Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2008

Hello,
I am using Visual Studio 2008 with the Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio 2008. Visual Studio and the Crystal Reports Basic Runtime for Visual Studio 2008 (x64) are installed on both the development and production boxes. I am using Crystal Reports via Visual Studio and do not have the full blown version of Crystal Reports installed on my machine.
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Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Hello,
Use a tool called ProcessMonitor from Microsoft and watch what happens when you try to log on.
Also can you verify you created your DSN using the 64 bit ODBC Admin and that you are using a System DSN so IIS can find it.
And that the MySQL ODBC drive is also 64 bit?
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Crash call stack caused by crdb_adoplus.dll and crqe.dll on Crystal Report for Visual Studio 2008

Hi There,
i have an application running on C# .NET which use .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Crystal Report for Visual Studio 2008 x64. Now i'm facing the issue in application. suddenly my IIS crash , and the application is logout.
i have opened advisory case to Microsoft and they help me to analyze the dump from the application when the issue is happened.
here it is the stack trace :
STACK_TEXT:
00000000`9b1dd160 000007fe`eb93946d : 00000000`9b1dd308 000007fe`eb931948 00000000`00000000 000007fe`eb931610 : verifier!VerifierStopMessage+0x1f0
00000000`9b1dd210 000007fe`eb939736 : 00000000`9b1ddb50 00000000`00000002 00000000`00000040 00000000`00000004 : verifier!AVrfpDphReportCorruptedBlock+0x2a5
00000000`9b1dd2d0 000007fe`eb9399cd : 00000000`b32f1000 00000000`9b1ddb50 00000000`00000004 00000000`00001000 : verifier!AVrfpDphCheckNormalHeapBlock+0xce
00000000`9b1dd340 000007fe`eb93873a : 00000000`9b1ddb50 00000000`01001002 00000000`cca0c3b0 00000000`00000000 : verifier!AVrfpDphNormalHeapFree+0x29
00000000`9b1dd370 00000000`770b99a5 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 000007fe`f25514f7 000007ff`05f0a1d1 : verifier!AVrfDebugPageHeapFree+0xb6
00000000`9b1dd3d0 00000000`7705dbc0 : 00000000`b32f0000 00000000`cc16afb0 00000000`b32f0000 00000000`cc16afb0 : ntdll!RtlDebugFreeHeap+0x35
00000000`9b1dd430 00000000`7704413d : 00000000`b32f0000 00000000`9968aa01 00000000`00000000 00000000`9b1ddb50 : ntdll!RtlpFreeHeap+0x19a70
00000000`9b1dd770 00000000`76ef307a : 00000000`00000001 00000000`9968aa40 00000000`9b1dd958 00000000`cc16afb0 : ntdll!RtlFreeHeap+0x1a6
00000000`9b1dd7f0 00000000`9739cabc : 00000000`00000000 00000000`9968aa40 00000000`000002a3 00000000`cc13ef28 : kernel32!HeapFree+0xa
00000000`9b1dd820 000007fe`f2550e37 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`24b20fc0 00000000`0000001b 000007ff`0604a340 : msvcr90!free+0x1c
00000000`9b1dd850 000007ff`05f05802 : 00000000`00000000 000007ff`0604f7c0 00000000`9b1dd958 00000000`9968aa40 : mscorwks!DoNDirectCall__PatchGetThreadCall+0x7b
00000000`9b1dd8f0 000007ff`05f0a231 : 000007ff`0604f730 000007ff`05f05802 00000000`cc16afb0 00000000`0000001b : DomainBoundILStubClass.IL_STUB(Void*)+0x42
00000000`9b1dd9b0 000007ff`05f0a1d1 : 00000000`cc16afb0 00000000`000007d4 00000000`9b1dd2e8 00000000`00000000 : crdb_adoplus!<Module>.DbFieldInfo.{dtor}(DbFieldInfo*)+0x11
00000000`9b1dd9e0 000007ff`05f0a177 : 00000000`0000001c 00000000`cc13ef20 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : crdb_adoplus!<Module>.DbFreeFieldList(UInt32, DbFieldInfo**)+0x31
00000000`9b1dda30 000007fe`f254f18a : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : DomainBoundILStubClass.IL_STUB(Int32, Int64)+0x7
00000000`9b1dda60 00000000`9a506b36 : 00000000`0000001c 00000000`cc13ef20 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : mscorwks!UMThunkStubAMD64+0x7a
00000000`9b1ddaf0 00000000`9a583538 : 00000000`bf35af90 00000000`bf9bcfa0 00000000`9b1ddd30 00000000`00000000 : crqe+0x16b36
00000000`9b1ddca0 00000000`9a6c1c64 : 00000000`bec28dc0 00000000`cd926e60 00000000`00000000 00000000`cbafcf20 : crqe+0x93538
00000000`9b1ddf90 00000000`9a6bc697 : 00000000`cd926e60 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : crqe+0x1d1c64
00000000`9b1de000 00000000`b64fcab9 : 00000000`cd926ec0 00000000`9b1de0c0 00000000`00000000 00000000`b6dee2cb : crqe+0x1cc697
The crdb_adoplus tried free a corrupted Heap Block:
0:188> dt DPH_BLOCK_INFORMATION 000000009b1ddb50-40
verifier!DPH_BLOCK_INFORMATION
   +0x000 StartStamp : 0
   +0x004 PaddingStart     : 0
   +0x008 Heap             : 0x00000000`9b1ddb58 Void
   +0x010 RequestedSize    : 0x9b1ddb50
   +0x018 ActualSize       : 0x9b1ddb30
   +0x020 Internal         : _DPH_BLOCK_INTERNAL_INFORMATION
   +0x030 StackTrace       : 0x00000000`00000001 Void
   +0x038 PaddingEnd       : 0
   +0x03c EndStamp         : 0
is this problem solved by upgrading Crystal Report version to CR12 ?
Thank you,
Best Regards,
Leonardus Tono Amboro
IT Enterprise System Architect
PT Astra International Tbk.
AMDI A Building, 7th Fl.
Jln. Gaya Motor Raya 8. Sunter II, Jakarta 14330, Indonesia
Message was edited by: Ludek Uher
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Hi Leonardus
Please define "crash". What actually happens?
Did this ever work? E.g.; this started to happen recently?
Is this happening on your development system or QA or production?
See if enabling the option "Verify on 1st Refresh" will help.
Make sure you are using SP 1: Crystal Reports for VS 2005 and VS 2008 Updates & Runtime Downloads
Ensure that the dataset is less that a couple thousand rows. Anything more than that will cause issues...
- Ludek
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Crystal Report for Visual Studio 2012(free download)

I want to use Crystal Report for a Web Application which has to be hosted in Web servers. Please let me know whether the developer version of Crystal Report Downloaded for development purpose can be used for hosting purpose also?
Or
Crystal Report has to be bought from SAP?
Message was edited by: Ludek Uher

Downloads are here:
SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio: Updates & Runtime Downloads
Licensing info is here:
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 Licensing
If you need more info re. licensing, please contact sales: 866-681-3435
http://www.sap.com/contactsap/directory/index.epx
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