Purpose

The purpose of this document is to provide a quick look-up of all Support Packs, Fixed Issues and Distribution File downloads available for SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio.

Support Packs for “SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio” (SAP Crystal Reports for Visual Studio) are scheduled on a quarterly bases and supports the following versions of Visual Studio:

Note: All SP's are supported in all versions of Visual Studio 2010 and above.

NOTE: CR Redist packages are for deploying the runtime only onto Work Stations and Application Servers are designed for the platform of your project and not for the Operating system. MSIExec will detect if the OS is 64 bit and install the 64 bit MSI, if your project is to be used in x86 mode there will be an error generated.

NOTE: Be aware that Crystal Reports for Visual Studio are full builds only. We do not create patches for previous versions, if an issue is found, test it using the latest release, if it's still an issue we can escalate it to R&D for a fix. What this means is we only support the latest release with the understanding for bugs use the latest patch.

Here are the Life Cycle Dates for Crystal Reports which is what CR for VS follows.

SAP Crystal Products - End of Mainstream Maintenance Dates

Note: As of SP 29 we now register the Assemblies into GAC using this folder:

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly

Previous versions were placed in this folder:

C:\Windows\assembly

Fixes for each Support Pack are prioritized and released on or about end of each yearly quarter. All support packs are full builds of Crystal Reports for Visual Studio, thus it is not necessary to update incrementally. The most recent Support Pack in the below table is listed first.

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Update: All Service Packs are cumulative so we are removing the links to previous patches and will be keeping 3 or 4 still active.

❗ Please note: To integrate “SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio” you must run the Install Executable by right clicking and selecting "Run as Administrator". Installing the MSI will not fully integrate Crystal Reports into VS. MSI files by definition are for runtime distribution only. Do not run the MSI's on your Development PC, where VS is installed, not required.

❗ Note 2: SAP Crystal Reports, Developer Version for Visual Studio .NET does NOT support Express Editions of any version of Visual Studio

❗ WARNING: If you are using any third party applications that use the SDK package Please check with the makers of the software and ask if they have tested with the version you are downloading. If they do not support it at this time do not install the package on your PC, it could break their application.Update: Crystal reports for VS did not support Dbase file types. Discussions with our Product team resulted in adding the Xbase driver back into the various packages.

See this KBA – to download the crdb_p2bxbse.dll and it’s supporting dependencies.https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2379612

https://apps.support.sap.com/sap/support/knowledge/en/2379612

New In SP21 Release

As of SP 26 we no longer support .Net Framework 3.5 and recommend upgrading to 4.5.2 or above

Below items should be highlight for SP21:

1.    FlexNet and In-Place Upgrade does not work:  Once user receive the update notification from FlexNet server and finish SP21 upgrade, the product will NOT work. User MUST repair CR4VS and CRRuntime64 in Control Panel\Programs\. That’s a by design change to installer.

Note: Flexnet is a service we previously used for inplace upgrades, due to that service no longer available you can get an error indicating the service failed.

Note 2: Due to this error the install will likely fail because a previous version has not been uninstalled first. You can get various errors, likely 1904 - failed to register the dll for example.

See KBA for more info - For Installation issues PLEASE see this KBA - 2536330 - In-place (FlexNet), MSI and Merge Modules upgrade from Crystal Reports for Visual Studio SP xx to SP 21 does not work

a.    Please notice that we are still facing problems on configuring FlexNet upgrade server, so currently user will NOT receive SP21 notification

2.    Microsoft Windows Update KB2999226 is a prerequisite for SP21+

a.    This is same as BI 4.2 SP4 and BI 4.1 SP10. Please refer to SAP Note 2451830.

3.    For VS2017 integration, user must use “run as Administrator” by right-clicking setup.exe, even if you are already log on by using Administrator account

4.    As most of CR/RAS .NET Assemblies are now re-versioned from 13.0.2000.0 to 13.0.3500.0 and for SP 26 are now 13.0.4000.0, user MUST remove all old CR assemblies from Reference list and add the new version of CR assemblies, then rebuild the application.

a.    For those customer/user who do not wanted to rebuilt their application, there’s workaround to use in app.config/web.config, please see attachment.

For more info search for this Kbase article:

2719939 - Crystal Reports for Visual Studio Runtime versioning - side by side ability - what to do with WinFormCRViewer.zip from download WIKI

WinFormCRViewer.zip

5.    For reports using the ADO.Net DB connection, in previous SP's, you could only work under .Net Framework 2.0/3.5, so using in app.config is required. Now in SP21 and above, ADO.Net is only supported on .Net Framework 3.5 or above and you can remove the tag.

UPDATE: As of June 13th, 2017 we are now redirecting the downloads to a new page. This page will prompt for a log in and allow you to get notifications regarding updates. It only requires your e-mail address.

FYI - Only SP 18 and above is now available due to the download site changes. You can get them from here now:

https://origin.softwaredownloads.sap.com/public/site/index.html

Related Documents

All Reference Material on help.sap.com for CR for VS

End of Life references ( Note: Crystal Reports for VS latest SP is only currently supported )

Crystal Reports for Visual Studio Licensing (updated)

SAP Crystal Reports, Developer Version for Microsoft Visual Studio – Supported Platforms (updated)

Report Application Server .NET SDK API Reference Guide

Getting started and moving ahead with Crystal Reports .NET applications

See this Blog for instructions upgrading your existing project to the latest SP:

https://blogs.sap.com/2020/10/30/upgrading-a-visual-studio-2008-2019-.net-project-with-the-latest-cr-.net-sdk-packages/

See this blog on how to use CR 2020 Export to XLXS page formats:

SAP Crystal Reports for Visual Studio Installation Guide ( SP 21 and above)

New In SP33 Release - read the above info for SP 21 if upgrading from lower version

New In SP32 Release - read the above info for SP 21 if upgrading from lower version

New In SP31 Release - read the above info for SP 21 if upgrading from lower version

New In SP30 Release - read the above info for SP 21 if upgrading from lower version

New In SP29 Release - read the above info for SP 21 if upgrading from lower version

New In SP28 Release - read the above info for SP 21 if upgrading from lower version

New In SP27 Release - read the above info for SP 21 if upgrading from lower version

Please note, SP27 “Web Service / XML Data Driver” will be uploaded later, once a known issue solved.Please note, SP27 will not be uploaded to the old Akamai site.

New In SP26 Release - read the above info for SP 21 if upgrading from lower version

Note the following changes in SP 26:

New In SP25 Release - read the above info for SP 21 if upgrading from lower version

New In SP24 Release - read the above info for SP 21 if upgrading from lower version

 New In SP23 Release - read the above info for SP 21 if upgrading from lower version

New In SP22 Release - read the above info for SP 21 if upgrading from lower version

New In SP21 Release - see above

New In SP20 Release

New In SP19 Release

Fixed Issues:

SP33 Fixed Issues

SP32 Fixed Issues

SP31 Fixed Issues

SP30 Fixed Issues

SP 29 Only 1 fixed issue -  2947850 - Exporting HTML wrapped in text causes Crystal Reports Designer 2016+ and .NET CR for VS SP 27 CR Viewer to crash when exporting to txt format

SP28 Fixed Issues

SP27 Only 1 public fixed issue - 2889303 - Crystal Reports for Visual Studio SP 26 - Next Page causes Optional Parameter to prompt for value

SP26 Fixed Issues

SP25 Fixed issues

SP24 Fixed Issues

SP23 Fixed Issues

Note: all links to previous fixed issues are in the Fixed Issues Document.

Release NotesInstallation Guide

WARNING: Please refer to Knowledge Base article 2007224 for more info on configuring WEB Applications in Visual Studio 2013.

Note: Manual deployment of crdb_xml drivers requires manually installing and deploying JRE/JDK

1871962 – How To manually deploy Service Pack 6, and above, crdb_XML data source driver for Crystal Reports Developer for Visual Studio

Note: Clickonce32/64 is managed by the xml file for which one is installed.

1534388 – CRVS2010 – Creating Click Once deployment

Note: Click Once “Homesite” is to tell your installer to go here for the runtime.

Related Notes

1544708 – What are the runtime dependencies for CRVS2010?

1531409 – How to deploy the CRVS2010 runtime when using merge modules?

1606608  – Where is the SDK for VS .NET in Crystal Reports 2011?

1606663  – Does Crystal Reports SDK for VS .NET work with Delphi Prism?

1606621  – What .NET frameworks does CRVS2010 support?

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