Crystal Reports for Visual Studio Comparison

Feature

Data Access

Comprehensive data connectivity

Enhanced Web Services data driver

Native Database Drivers for Oracle, IBM DB2, salesforce.com, etc.

OLAP Data Sources

Report Design

WYSIWYG Integrated Report Designer (IDE)

Custom functions support

Embed images from an http URL or UNC path

On-report Interactive Parameters and Sorting

Add calculated fields to crosstabs without coding

Design-time preview editing the report while previewing it with data

Dynamic and cascading parameters

Embed dynamic Flash/Flex content into reports without any coding

Flexible report pagination control

Geographical Maps support

Hierarchical grouping support

XML Export with embeddable XSLT transformations

Application Development

Royalty-free runtime for thick-client applications

.NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 Framework support

WebForm and WinForm .NET Viewer

Cascading Style Sheets for customizing WebForm Viewer

ClickOnce deployment

Vista support

MSI Deployment

MSM Deployment

.NET 1.1 Framework support

Comprehensive report creation and modification API

Comparison Assumptions

Crystal Reports Basic in Visual Studio is used as IDE for application development.

Crystal Reports 2008 is used for .RPT creation outside IDE.

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