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Crystal Report 8.5 and Vista

Hi,
I have a VB6 application that uses Crystal Reports 8.5. Our company is going to upgrade to Vista in the next 6 months. My question is will Crystal Reports 8.5 work on Vista? If so, can I just install it on the users machine? Do I need to configure it a special way? I have never used VIsta before. If I can't, what version is Vista compatible?

Thanks,

Mark

Jeff S

Look at this thread:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1052067&SiteID=1

Mike McCracken

I would expect you to have trouble.

Crystal 8.5 was built on Windows 9x. It was never tested against Windows XP but Crystal expected it would work. Vista is another step forward. Crystal no longer supports CR8.5 or 9 and will be dropping 10 support soon.

Are you designing reports or just running existing reports?

mlmcc

Mark1110

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Hi,

I am maintaining existing reports.

Mark

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Mark1110

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It doesn't work, so I am going to have go to Crystal Reports 11

brucetwilson

I've found others who have succeeded with this, so don't give up too easily. I've read in some places that it works better on 32-bit Vista than 64-bit because of the different security on ActiveX controls and unsigned drivers.

Note also that Vista x64 has some issues with certain DLLs written for a 32-bit platform. There are ways to allow VIsta to run these "thunked". Not simple but definitely achievable.

bd9000

IMHO
I would highly recommend you abandon Crystal Reports on Vista. They won't have it truly Vista compliant for at least another year or 2 as per their own documentation. There are other reporting tools available, and the MS reporting tool works very well (from what I've done so far), though conversion of the old reports may take a couple of weeks - I think it will be worth it (it is managed code). MS's reporting tool currently does not have all the features of CR, but the next revision coming out will pretty much trump CR for good. I can't wait to say good riddance to CR!