Crystal Reports Developer Edition

[rbeauman]

I am developing reports with Crystal Reports Developer Edition 2020 under Microsoft Visual Studio 2022. I would like to use .csv files as a data source. I have the full version of Crystal Reports on my development machine into which I have installed the CR ODBC Text driver. When I try to use it, I get a message stating that the driver is for use with CR. Why doesn't it work with Developer? What is a workaround?

[DellSC]

There is no "Developer" version of Crystal 2020, so I'm going to assume that you're using the latest SP of Crystal for Visual Studio, which is a separate download.

1. Do you get the error message when you try to create a report in VS based on the driver?

2. Or have you created your report in the full version of Crystal and then can't run it in VS/your application?

If it's #2, how are you setting the connection to the file in your code?

-Dell

[rbeauman]

I am using Crystal Reports for Visual Studio SP33 through Visual Studio 2022. I get the error when I attempt to select the text driver during report design.

[DonWilliams · Accepted solution]

Hi Ronald,

That is normal behaviour....

The reason is CR for VS doesn't install the DataDirect ODBC dll's so the license file is missing from the runtime folder. And I asked Product about this before and they said there are no plans to include them with CR for VS due to licensing obviously.

Don't use CR's ODBC DataDirect clients.

The problem is with the distribution of the DataDirect ODBC dll's, they only come with CR Designer and does not have a separate installer you can use for redistribution without CRD.

Here's a link to using Microsoft's 64 bit CSV client:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/64-bit-odbc-driver-not-connecting-to-load-csv...

Don

[rbeauman · Accepted solution]

Understood. Thanks a million for the help.