Crystal Reports 13 and Visual Basic 6

[Former Member]

I have a application written in Visual Basic 6, with an access back end, with major reporting functions provided by Crystal Reports 6.

This program is used by a number of clients that all until some weeks had XP as their operating system.    Needless to say cr6 does

not play well in win 8.1 environment and hence my desire to update to CR13.   VB6 I am told is a dying if not already defunct but the truth is I like it and would like to continue to use it.   My problem is that I cannot find any info on how to use CR13 in VB6.   If it was just a matter of running a pre-defined report I guess that can be done, but it somewhat defeats me how to pass parameters and variables to the report.   It seems a long  way removed from CR6 but willing to give CR13 a good go in the hope of making it work, as I have nothing but praise for my comfortable (for 10 years) CR6

Any help very gratefully accepted with hat in hand.

[ido_millet · Accepted solution]

vb6 plays well (using the RDC object model) with versions up to Cr XI R2.
Crystal 12 (2008), and above requires a switch to the .NET object model.

[DellSC · Accepted solution]

Also, unlike earlier versions, Crystal 2011 and 2013 do NOT include the SDK in their installations.  The SDK is a separate download which, as Ido states, is based on .NET.

-Dell

[former_member11696 · Accepted solution]

And to add to all that, VB 6 is dead along time ago. We no longer have any SDK that will work in VB 6 now. No COM components and VB 6 does not support .NET framework.

Only option is to upgrade to Visual Studio 2010, 2012 or 2013 and use CR for VS.

Sample apps are here:

NET RAS SDK Samples - Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects) - SCN Wiki

Don

[Former Member]

We had the same problem. We created a COM compatible .NET dll which we use in our VB6 project to show and print reports.

[y0505]

Hi Marc,

Could you please provide high level understanding on how did you achieve this? I am working on similar issue and trying to look around possible solutions to fix the issue.

Thanks in advance,

D