Purpose The purpose of this document is to provide a quick look-up of all Support Packs, Fixed Issues and Distribution File downloads available for SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio. Overview Support Packs for “SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio” (SAP Crystal Reports for Visual Studio) are scheduled on a quarterly bases and support the following versions of Visual Studio: • VS 2010 – original release and higher • VS 2012 – SP 7 and higher • VS 2013 – SP 9 and higher • VS 2015RC – SP14 • VS 2015 – SP 15 and higher • VS 2017 - SP 21 and higher NOTE: CR Redist packages for deploying the runtime only onto Work Stations and Application Servers are designed for the platform of your project and not for the Operating system.

Aug 23, 2013 - Download Free Files API. Visual Studio 2012 installation does not contain Crystal Reports 2012 and hence to install it you can download it. Crystal Reports source can be downloaded from the SAP website at the following. Click on the Free Trials link as we see in the following screenshot: Click on SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio as we. Crystal Reports is installed successfully and asks us if we wish to install 64-bit runtime.

MSIExec will detect if the OS is 64 bit and install the 64 bit MSI, if your project is to be used in x86 mode there will be an error generated. Support Packs, Fixed Issues and Distribution File downloads Fixes for each Support Pack are prioritized and released on or about end of each yearly quarter. All support packs are full builds of Crystal Reports for Visual Studio, thus it is not necessary to update incrementally.

The most recent Support Pack in the below table is listed first. To keep current and up to date with new releases as well as KBAs and more f ollow us on Update: All Service Packs are cumulative so we are removing the links to previous patches and will be keeping 3 or 4 still active. Links still work if you have them. ❗ Please note:To integrate “SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio” you must run the Install Executable. Running the MSI will not fully integrate Crystal Reports into VS. MSI files by definition are for runtime distribution only. By default Windows 10 does not install the 3.5 framework, CR for VS still needs it.

Select it by “Turn Windows feature on or off” and choose both options. ❗ Note 2: SAP Crystal Reports, Developer Version for Visual Studio.NET does NOT support Express Editions of any version of Visual Studio.NET. ❗ WARNING: If you are using any third party applications that use the SDK package Please check with the makers of the software and ask if they have tested with the version you are downloading. If they do not support it at this time do not install the package on your PC, it could break their application. Update: Crystal reports for VS did not support Dbase file types. Discussions with our Product team resulted in adding the Xbase driver back into the various packages.

See this KBA – to download the crdb_p2bxbse.dll and it’s supporting dependencies. NOTE: The info for SP 21 is required for ANY Patch after SP 21 also New In SP21 Release • Integration with Visual Studio 2017 •.NET Framework 4.7 • FireFox ESR 52 • Addressed 10+ customer Incidents. We still support.Net Framework 3.5 SP1(except the ADO.NET case #5) Below items should be highlight for SP21: 1.

FlexNet and In-Place Upgrade does not work: Once user receive the update notification from FlexNet server and finish SP21 upgrade, the product will NOT work. User MUST repair CR4VS and CRRuntime64 in Control Panel Programs. That’s a by design change to installer. Please notice that we are still facing problems on configuring FlexNet upgrade server, so currently user will NOT receive SP21 notification 2. Microsoft Windows Update KB2999226 is a prerequisite for SP21 - Windows 7 only. Serial number lookup. This is same as BI 4.2 SP4 and BI 4.1 SP10. Please refer to SAP Note 2451830.

For VS2017 integration, user needs use “run as Administrator” by right-clicking setup.exe, even if you are already log on by using Administrator account 4. As most of CR/RAS.NET Assemblies are now re-versioned from 13.0.2000.0 to 13.0.3500.0, user MUST remove all old CR assemblies from Reference list and add the new version of CR assemblies, then rebuild the application. For those customer/user who do not wanted to rebuilt their application, there’s workaround to use in app.config/web.config, please see attachment. For more info search for this Kbase article: 2719939 - Crystal Reports for Visual Studio Runtime versioning - side by side ability - what to do with WinFormCRViewer.zip from download WIKI 5.

For reports using the ADO.Net DB connection, in previous SP's, you could only work under.Net Framework 2.0/3.5, so using in app.config is required. Now in SP21, ADO.Net is only supported on.Net Framework 3.5 or above. For Installation issues PLEASE see this KBA - New In SP20 Release • HANA 2.0 SPS01 • Addressed 5+ customer Incidents. New In SP19 Release • Windows Server 2016 • IIS 10 on Windows Server 2016 • Addressed over 10 customer Incidents.