Comments on: Getting started with Crystal Reports 2008

By: Serguei Dosyukov

Serguei Dosyukov — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:04:21 +0000

Hi dat, it is a question of integration and most likely you may not want to deploy whole CR to all the clients machines, but rather worry only about printing part. I do not recall native support of command line parameters by CR IDE, but I could be wrong. There are however programs around which are doing just that: View/Print. There is now a free CR Viewer 2008 available (release notes). I think it does support print command. I have not used it myself for that purpose, since we are managing homegrown solution over the years based of Visual Studio .Net CR (2008) SDK, but it may worth to check. Also there are small tools around which were developed for this purpose. You can try Bing for it.

By: dat

dat — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:22:52 +0000

Hi Serge,
this may be out dated but I will try anyway.
I am new to CR2008, our company just purchase it for a project that we will be using with FoxPro 9. Our application is written in FoxPro 9, I need to launch CR2008 using FoxPro to print reports that are setup in CR2008. I am trying to find the CR2008 print commands (similar to DOS commands) so I can use it with FoxPro but cannot find it anywhere. Or I may be asking the wrong question. Any suggestions is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance

dat

By: Serge Dosyukov

Serge Dosyukov — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:47:06 +0000

Hi, Julie
Thank you for the link. I have glanced through the article. Good reference.
Going over “Avoiding the mess…” part, I can compare my expereince in last two days – 2 uninstalls to clean up after CR XI and then after CR 2008 and 3 installs to finally have 2008 working. This does not include Visual Studio… 🙂

By: julie lerman

julie lerman — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:58:01 +0000

Hi Serge – you too huh? I think you may have been using Crystal for a year longer than me! 🙂

If it’s any help, I wrote two short articles for ASPAlliance about this also.

Here’s most the recent one. http://aspalliance.com/articleviewer.aspx?aId=1744

LIke I always say about Crystal – can’t live iwth it, can’t live without it!

julie