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Crystal Reports dropped in Visual Studio 2010???

I've been playingwith the Visual Studio 2010CTP virtual machine, andjust noticed something slightly worrying - Crystal reports seems to be missing!

Has support been dropped, or will it be an optional feature or something?

Thanks,
Dan

Daniel Smith Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:32 AM

Hi all,

From the feedback of the corresponding product unit, for the current plan, Crystal Report related project will be back in the future release of Visual Studio 2010.

Have a nice day!

Best Regards,
Lingzhi

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Marked As Answer byDaniel Smith Tuesday, June 02, 2009 8:03 AM

Lingzhi Sun Tuesday, June 02, 2009 1:33 AM

Hello,

Until now, I think we could only see test version or pre-release version of Visual Studio 2010, so we have no idea of whether crystal report is supported in the RTM version of Visual Studio 2010. However, I am sure that Microsoft will give us a better version of Visual Studio. And I think Visual Studio product team are alwas listening to customers�?feedbacks and suggestions on Visual Studio products, so your opinion will be surely taken into consideration.

Thanks,

Best Regards,
Lingzhi

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Unmarked As Answer byDaniel Smith Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:38 AM
Marked As Answer byLingzhi SunMSFT, ModeratorMonday, November 03, 2008 11:43 AM

Lingzhi Sun Friday, October 31, 2008 5:52 AM

Hi Lingzhi,

Thank you for the info. Is there any chance you could speak to one of yourcolleagues in the VS team and ask them what the plans are? I know it's not always possible to comment on the features of future releases, but itwould be reassuring to hear what the intentions are.

If Crystal Reports support has been discontinued, this would be very disappointing, especially as there has been no prior notice. If the intension is to remove support, then it really should have beenflagged upas "deprecated" in VS2008 in order to give people enough notice toevaluate the alternatives.

Any further info on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dan

Daniel Smith Monday, November 03, 2008 2:09 PM

Hi Daniel,

Thank you very much for your feedback. We are trying to send a feature request to the Visual Studio product team. Subsequently, could you please offer some more information on the business impact of you, if Crystal Report support is missing in Visual Studio 2010?

Best Regards,
Lingzhi

Edited byLingzhi SunMSFT, ModeratorMonday, December 01, 2008 8:16 AMmodify

Lingzhi Sun Monday, December 01, 2008 1:23 AM

Can I add to this request? We use Crystal Reports extensively in ASP.NET projects, and would be very disappointed if support IS to be dropped.

John Horbury

Industrial Technology system Ltd.

JohnHorb Monday, December 08, 2008 7:54 PM

Hi

Lets make this one a voting session to make sure CR is added. I use it a lot!

FS

Iwillsurvive Saturday, January 31, 2009 3:06 PM

Hi Lingzhi,

So sorry I didn't notice your second reply until now. I've been evaluating VS2010 beta 1 and indeed, Crystal Reports has been removed from VS2010.

As for the impact, this affects roughly 15-20different applications that are in production use which are developed at my company (we're a software house). Across all the applications, we haveliterally hundreds of reports. The cost of reworking the reports to switch to MS reporting would be prohibitive (both developer time and budget). In addition the MS reporting technologies lack many of the more powerful features and flexibility of Crystal Reports.

We'll likely simply have to purchase the full Crystal Reports liscence from SAP, which will hopefully be compatible with Visual Studio 2010 when it's released.

-Dan

Daniel Smith Friday, May 29, 2009 9:59 AM

Are we absolutely sure that Crystal reports is being dropped in 2010?
Can someone from Microsoft address this? Thanks.

RPGtoVBDOTNETprogrammer Friday, May 29, 2009 11:54 AM

Hi all,

From the feedback of the corresponding product unit, for the current plan, Crystal Report related project will be back in the future release of Visual Studio 2010.

Have a nice day!

Best Regards,
Lingzhi