Question

I am trying to upgrade my code from using Crystal Reports 11 to Crystal Reports 13, but I am having troubles since I can’t find the craxdrt.dll on the new Crystal Reports 13 package.

I used to import craxdrt.dll then instantiate it as a COM component

#import "craxdrt.dll"

IApplicationPtr         m_pCrystalEngine;
m_pCrystalEngine.CreateInstance("CrystalRuntime.Application.11");

Any idea how can I upgrade my code ?!!

Answer 1

The RDC was deprecated in CR9 and stopped shipping as of CR XI R2 (11.5), which itself is out of support already.

A walkaround is to write a COM or C++/CLI interop layer based on the .Net version of Crystal Report.