Re: Crystal Reports 9 .... It cannot be deployed to client machines !!!!

The most obvious advantage is the ability to design the report on the
desktop (using an XML file derived from a dataset) or in the IDE. I believe
the latest webform control now has a print button which the old version
sorely lacked. The graphing has been improved with more control over label
sizes and fonts. There are others, but these spring immediately to mind. And
yes I have to agree that their Enterprise solution is prohibitively
expensive !!



-----Original Message-----
From: dotnet-products [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of Lasker, Steve
Sent: 04 September 2002 14:31
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DOTNET-PRODUCTS] Crystal Reports 9 .... It cannot be
deployed to client machines !!!!


Were there some features of 9 that you needed, or just assumed that the
latest was the greatest, and it should be easy?  Just trying to see if
there's anything we're missing by sticking with Crystal on some of our
desktop projects.  Crystal on the desktop is fairly painless to the
pocket.  Crystal on the web is a killer for the per/cpu pricing model.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Crabb [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 7:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DOTNET-PRODUCTS] Crystal Reports 9 .... It cannot be
deployed to client machines !!!!

If you used what was in .NET then it will have been V8.5 (for .NET) and
definitely won't be version 9 which is where the problem is. Version 9
was
only released a few weeks ago. We have hundreds of CR reports and a
system
going live in 4 weeks so unfortunately we are stuck with them.


-----Original Message-----
From: dotnet-products [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of Lasker, Steve
Sent: 04 September 2002 13:03
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DOTNET-PRODUCTS] Crystal Reports 9 .... It cannot be
deployed to client machines !!!!


We've deployed Windows Forms apps with crystal, but we used what came in
.NET.  I'm just curious what you needed that wasn't packaged with the
.NET version of Crystal.  Active Reports still seems to have the better
product.  Even if they're late to having a .NET native component.  COM
Interop has worked well to continue to use their pre .net version.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Crabb [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 4:22 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [DOTNET-PRODUCTS] Crystal Reports 9 .... It cannot be deployed
to client machines !!!!

This is a warning to anyone considering purchasing or upgrading to CR9.
Although the product can be purchased and proclaims .NET compatibility
for
the report designer, It cannot as yet be used to deploy reports. Our
company
spent 2 or 3 wasted days trying to get our deployed application
(winforms)
to display and print reports on client machines, but it would not.
Following
a couple of calls to the Crystal Care support guys, I was informed that
the
CR9 .Net MSM's (merge modules) are not ready yet and haven't been
released.
They alledge that the release date is Sept 16th. No mention of this is
made
anywhere on their website that I can find as yet.

Steve Crabb