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Barcode support and runtime .net framework requirement

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Hello.

If we upgrade to newest Crystal Reports for Visual Studio support pack 11. It does support report designing in Visual Studio 2012 and 2013?

How about barcode support. Does Crystal Reports for Visual Studio have barcode support (for both 32 and 64 bit runtimes)?

What .net framework is required for support pack 11 runtimes to work?

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former_member188030
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CR for VS does support report desiging in VS 2012 and VS 2013 as installing the CRVSSp11.exe installs a bundled CR designer and integrates it with VS IDE. You could design a new report in VS IDE with bundeld CR designer.

However, CR for VS designer is not recomendded for full fledged reprot designing, it should only be used for sampling / testing purpose. also, it had limited CR desiging capabilities as compared to the standalone CR designers such as CR 2011 and CR 2013.

use either CR 2008 / 2011 / 2013 designers to desing your reports and then use them with CRVS .NET SDK app. the SDK supports barcodes.

see the supported platform and other resources here.

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-7824

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Thanks for reply.

Do you mean this as stadalone designer :https://store.sap.com/sap/cpa/ui/resources/store/html/SolutionDetails.html?pid=0000000132&catID=ANA&...

If I buy this, users of my application can use reports designed with it using CR for Visual Studio runtimes or what runtime my application users require? What .NET framework version is needed for runtime? Barcodes are supported in both 32 and 64 bit environments?

Does the standalone designer also create visual basic classe for report like CR for Visual Studio does? The created class makes report using in application code a lot easier.

Thanks in advance,

Mikko

former_member188030
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Yes, you could download the trial copy for CR designer here.

http://www.sap.com/solution/sme/software/free-trials.html


If I buy this, users of my application can use reports designed with it using CR for Visual Studio runtimes or what runtime my application users require? What .NET framework version is needed for runtime? Barcodes are supported in both 32 and 64 bit environments?

Yes, develop the reports using standalone designer, develop the application using CR for VS SDK (ver 13.0) and view those report in the app. All the runtimes downloads are available here.

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-7824

See this article for more info. http://scn.sap.com/community/crystal-reports-for-visual-studio/blog/2013/06/28/how-do-you-spell-conf...

if the report works fine in CR designer with barcodes, it can be viewed in the app where you could target either 32 bit or 64 bit platform while compiling it.

For supported .NET frameworks, see the CR for VS supported platforms guide

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-21990

Thanks,

Bhushan

DellSC
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As an FYI, you can use Add>>Existing to import the .rpt file into your application if you want the VB class for the report.  You can also just access the report file using the ReportDocument.Load(<filename>) method, which won't create the specific report class, but will load the report into a generic "ReportDocument" object.

-Dell

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