Visual Studio 2022 & Crystal Reports 2008

[jorgepen]

I need to know if it's possible to work with Crystal Reports 2008 files in Visual Studio 2022.

Thank you very much.

[DonWilliams · Accepted solution]

Always use the latest SP available, right now it's SP 36, they are full builds so to take advantage of the latest supported platforms and security updates you need to update each time, roughly twice a year...

You can get it from here:

https://help.sap.com/docs/SUPPORT_CONTENT/crystalreports/3354091173.html

To get Crystal Reports 2020 to verify your reports and data sources you can update Crystal Reports designer from here:

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_CRYSTAL_REPORTS

The reason to update your RPT files is because the Reports do keep the database info within the file and that can cause connectivity issue with updated releases.

Note: the only way to update the Report version is to edit the reports in CR Designer or CR for VS Embedded Designer.

[ido_millet]

Yes, but

• you need to install Crystal for VS
• you need to have 64-bit connectivity to your data source.

[jorgepen]

Thank you for your quick and clear response. Could you please tell me which specific version of Crystal for VS I should download? Thank you very much."