Crystal Reports in Application

[SprintFlunky]

I'm at the end of a long development cycle, starting to develop the user reports, and I finally noticed that the reporting capabilities in .net standard leaves a lot to be desired. I'm looking into either upgrading to PRO or buying a 3rd party reporting tool to help build my reports.

If I use Crystal Reports in PRO, will my end user need anything special on their PC to run the reports or will it be "built in" to the delivered EXE file. I do not want the user to have to purchase Crystal simply to execute my program.

Any help with this or recommendations on 3rd party reporting tools would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

 

[jebenson]

Your end users will not need to purchase CR to use any reports you have developed in your app. However, there are some considerations with installing CR (e.g., registration, proper files, etc.). Do a search in this forum for "deploy crystal reports" or "install crystal reports" and you should get all the info you need about installing apps with CR.



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[ThatRickGuy]

CR comes with 'Royalty Free' libraries. Those are the libraries used to display a report on a form in VB 6/.Net. Note though that Terminal Server and Citrix are both considered server solutions and with CR 8-10 will require a service license (I think $3000 base plus $3k for each processor over 2). CR 11 is a bit more Terminal Server friendly, but notice that you can not have an install executable name over 17 characters (including the .exe). The actual project name can be what ever, but the assembly name has to be 17 or less characters.

-Rick

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