Thursday, September 25 2008 - Tools
I spent a ridiculous amount of time moving an app with lots of Crystal Reports from VS2005 to VS2008. The VS part was a breeze. It was the move to Crystal Reports 2008 that slayed me. I learned a lot of lessons during this process and wrote them into an article for ASPAlliance in the hopes of helping others have a smoother transition.
The article is Lessons Learned: Sorting out Crystal Reports 2008 Versioning, Service Packs and Deployment
Crystal Reports is the bane of my existence. Well, part of it anyway. This is the most bloated piece of software. Finding and applying service packs is a nightmare. The licensing rules change each version. The server throttling is atrocious. I recently found a tool that converts Crystal Report to SQL Reporting Reports. I hope it works well... then maybe we can finally move off of Crystal. Ug!! Of course, the grass is always greener until you get up close and see its not really what you thought.BOb
Can't live with it, can't live without it. :-)
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