Help me find best tools for Crystal development?

[donbcivil]

I'm posting to ask the folks in this forum what the best
Crystal developer tools are.

The functions that I need are some combination of:
- report dumping
- report search
- debugging tools

Of course the ultimate would be the ability to dump to
XML format, make changes and reimport but I don't know if
there's anything like that out there.

I've found a few links but would like feedback from experts
on which tools here (or elsewhere) are most effective:
From CrystalKeen:

http://tinyurl.com/6tevt

From recrystallize:

http://www.recrystallize.com/merchant/products.htm

Thanks in advance!

Don

 

[synapsevampire]

There are lots of tools.

Ken Hamady, one of the strongest contributors here, has a great resource site for Crystal development:

http://www.kenhamady.com/bookmarks.html

-k

 

[vidru]

I've seen the demo version of Report Analyzer. If you need documentation, it does a nice job, but IMHO, a bit pricey ($400 US).

Most, if not all, of the tools listed at Ken's site have trial versions. Try as many freebies as you can from there. If you can't find one that does something that you need, post back here with some specs.

-dave