Upgrade from Crystal report 8 to Crystal report 2013

Dear all,
Need some information pertaining to upgrade of Crystal report 8 to Crystal report 2013 (to be invoked from thick client .NET applications)
Is it possible to directly upgrade from 8 to 2013 ? Or should there be a move to intermediate version before going to 2013 ?
How is the upgrade generally done ? (do we just open the report and save in new version, or do they have any upgrade wizard)
What are the typical issues we may face while going from lower version to higher version (I understand queries may break, format and layout may change. Are there any other issues specific to upgradation.
Regards,
Jain

Hi Jain,
Moved your post to .NET Forums.
Since CR 8.0 is 12 or more years old there is no "upgrade path" now. The Database drivers have all changed and the Parameter API's have also.
Best way is to get CR 2011 and manually open each and every report and update the DB connection using the Set Table Location, this requires updating the DB Client to current versions also.
Note there are some old legacy DB sources no longer available so that can be a problem also.
CR 8 is not Side By Side compatible with any other version so make sure it's not installed on the same PC. It will never work and cause all sorts of problems for you.
Basic report layout stayed the same but Printing has changed a lot also so search here, lots of post on the subject.
For more help need to know your data source also?
And check the Overview Tab, on the left side, lots of resources and samples to get you started.
Also, first warning is set your project to X86 and the full Framework, do not use the Client version.
And the SDK is no longer shipped with CR Designer install, VS installer and redist packages are all available from here:
SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio: Updates & Runtime Downloads
Don

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