Report conversion question

I have a project created in VS 2008 that has one report in it. When I open it in VS 2010 with CR 2010 installed it asks if I want to convert the report. I tell it no since i don't want to move to the 4 framework yet. Everything worked great. Then I opened up another 2010 environment and opened a different project from 2008 I did not get asked if i want to convert the report it is just converted to 2010. I have closed the environment and reopened with the same results, also have restarted with the same results. It is now always converting the reports to 2010. How can i stop this?
I can manually change the references to the older crystal decisions and will get the older version, but this is not practical.
Edited by: ck911db on Nov 23, 2010 7:26 PM

Hello,
What is the Crystal Repots version in which the reports are designed?
Only Crystal Reports basic for visual studio 2010 is meant to work with VS2010, so even if you try to use report from any other version with VS2010, it may cause issues.
I would recommend you to upgrade the reports to [CR4VS2010|/people/coy.yonce/blog/2010/11/12/crystal-reports-for-visual-studio-2010-production-release-now-availableCystlR%2528SAPWeblogs%253ACrystal+Reports%2529].
Also is CR2008 installed on the same machine? As issues are encountered because of its side by side installatioon with CR4VS2010.
Thanks,
Bhushan.

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