Hi. This is not the forum to be asking CR questions in. Please try a forum dedicated to CR. Since MS has shut down their own VS/CR forum you might want to try one like
http://www.crystalreportsbook.com/forum/default.asp. SAP should have one as well (they own it now).
I'll go one step further than Cor on this one. I don't hate CR because of its weird design quirks, I hate it because their version for Visual Studio was terribly written and is nearly impossible to debug. I think their own report tools might
be better though.
Here's just one reason why I hate it... I'm still living with a pernicious problem with a CR project I wrote (in VS 2005) -- the way it uses the SQL Native Client provider causes a new SQL process (SPID) to be started with every report rendering
and it will not release the process even after the report is disposed. Only closing the app will cause the processes to be closed. So If I look at the processes running on SQL Server I can have up to 20 or 30 running even though no report is active.
It must be some COM issue, but the project is so fragile that when I open it up I often get some of ther reports to become corrupted when opened in the designer. Again, just a few reasons I don't like CR for VS.
