Is there any way we can run the Crystal Reports 8 on Visual Studio 2013. I have a Vb.Net Project which was built using VS2008 + Crystal Reports 8.
Now I am running Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition. but the project is not opening is because of Crystal Report References. I know there won't be any! for that ancient Crystal Report version but trying for a luck? Is it possible?
To integrate Crystal Reports development int Visual Studio 2013 you must use "SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio".
It does NOT support Express Editions of any version of Visual Studio .NET.
Single .rpt files can be edited with new Crystal Reports.
If your project was created with older Crystal Report version, you can update assembly version into your configuration file.
<assemblies>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Web, Version=13.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Shared, Version=13.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.ReportSource, Version=13.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine, Version=13.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ClientDoc, Version=13.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Web, Version=13.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304"/>
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Web, Version=13.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304"/>
I do not recommend running Crystal Reports 8 reports with VS Crystal runtime engine. You should run only Crystal XI or later reports with the later runtime engines. The whole IT world has changed since Crystal Reports 8, especially the way Crystal Reports connects to databases. Note, some of your Crystal Reports 8 report WILL work, but I can promise that it won't be all of them.
