Crystal Migration 8.5 to 2011/2013

[valluvan_navalan]

Dear Team,

I have Requirment to upgrade is from VB6.0 application to .NET windows application.

We analyzed the application code base and found 430+ crystal reports developed in Crystal Report 8.5.

These reports needs to be migrated to Crystal Reports 2011/ 2013.

So kindly share your thoughts regarding migration steeps ?

Thanks in Advance.

Valluvan N

[DellSC · Accepted solution]

For the most part, the reports should run in the new SDK as-is.  However, if you've made any manual edits to the SQL in any of the reports, those reports will have to be rebuilt from scratch in the newer version of Crystal using a "Command" - the ability to modify the SQL that Crystal generates went away with Crystal 9.

For information about how to work with Commands, see my blog post here: 

-Dell