Building on 15 years of experience in the Microsoft development environment Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio 2008 continues to answer the needs of Visual Studio developers, offering an enhanced integrated reporting experience within the Visual Studio IDE. This special version of Crystal Reports includes new support for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and the .NET 3.5 framework.

Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2008 allows developers to save time by designing, viewing, and exporting their reports without having to run them inside their application. Crystal Reports project templates and smart tags speed application development for beginners and intermediate users.

Crystal Reports supports hierarchical fields such as User Defined Types, XML fields and object collections allowing support for data from web services. Object collections allow you to pass an array of objects to a report as a data source. Single Sign On is achieved with support for integrated authentication to allow user credentials to be passed from a user’s browser to the ASP.NET application and Crystal Reports to SQL Server 2008.

Crystal Reports 2008 is an exciting new upgrade to your copy of Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio. Crystal Reports 2008 provides an additional enriched designer, a report creation and modification API, an enhanced viewer with report parameter panel for better report interactivity, and integration with Adobe Flash, Flex, and Business Objects Xcelsius dashboards.

FEATURES & BENEFITS

• Report Designer-Design, preview and export reports directly within Visual Studio.
• Viewers-WinForm and ASP.NET report viewers to manage paging, drill down, searching and many other end-user actions.
• Free runtime-Freely distribute Crystal Report desktop and web applications.
• Single click printing-Provide precision pixel perfect Crystal Reports printing with one click from a web browser.
• Runtime Data-Access multiple data sources using Data Readers, Object collections, .NET Data Sets, ODBC, OLEDB and others.

VISUAL STUDIO EXTENSIBILITY & INTEGRATION

• Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio 2008 and the associated runtime libraries comes free with the default installation of Visual Studio 2008.
• Themes provide a common look and feel to all visual controls on a page or across a website. The Crystal- ReportsViewer control is compatible with ASP.NET Themes.
• A ReportSource control which encapsulates a report with its data is provided as part of the simplified tag-based application development model.
• Crystal Reports provides numerous deployment options from a single simplified merge module, to a Microsoft Installer file(MSI), to ClickOnce deployments

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• Visual Studio 2008

PRICE

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