HI Graig,

>Beginning with CR 9, the DLLs are versioned. Crystal calls this "side-by-side" installation. What this means is that you can install a newer version without overwriting an older one.

Does this mean that the export dlls are not located in the windir\crystal directory anymore ?

Walter,


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>>AFAIK, there are still problems in running two different crystal versions on one machine. This makes it harder for those cases where the client wants to install two products with two different crystal version requirements. I've had to spend several hours from my office to determine that a faulty client had some DLLs installed of version 8 while the product was using the CRPE engine of version 7. This problem is something that is not applicable when using products build on two different VFP versions. In that respect many developer tools could learn from VFP.
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>>I don't know the details about CR 9 and 10 since they do not offer too much of improvements on the report designer and RDC component. When evaluating CR 10, I was disappointed to see the improvements relative to CR 8.5 when it comes to creating even more advanced reports. Some little things remain a nightmare in Crystal. Summaries on group based summaries are only available in grids and cross tabs: you cannot create formula fields based on summaries which forces you to do the calculation in advance in your data export. Another simple thing is to create newspaper style columns where the records are drawn from "down then across", but the columns are equally sized.
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>>Walter,