Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 released to manufacturing November 19^th , 2007 and with it so did the latest version of Crystal Reports & or was it the latest version?

1. Crystal Reports 2008 Runtime Download
2. Crystal Reports 2008 Full Version Download
3. Crystal Reports 2008 Version Number

It is a bit of a trick question and one that has led to much confusion for Crystal Report developers over time. The trick is that there are two different editions of Crystal Reports. The Crystal Reports that is included with Visual Studio (on the CD) and the Crystal Reports that is attained separately from Business Objects or a partner/reseller. To help differentiate the two, the Crystal Reports inside Visual Studio name was changed to be Crystal Reports Basic. The official name of the latest version being Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio 2008.

Crystal Decisions was acquired in December 2003 by BusinessObjects, which produced versions 10, 11 (XI) and version 12 (2008). SAP acquired BusinessObjects on October 8, 2007 and released Crystal Reports 2011 (version 14) on May 3, 2011. The latest version released is Crystal Reports 2016 (version 14.2.x) on March 8, 2016.

I should mention that there were more editions of Crystal Reports available from Business Objects before but for simplicity these editions have been amalgamated into one product called Crystal Reports. So no more CR Standard, CR Professional or CR Developer it is just simply Crystal Reports. The latest version of this edition shipped October 15^th,2007 and is called Crystal Reports 2008.

The next question is, why do I care?

Crystal Reports Basic (and previous versions in Visual Studio) are a functional subset of Crystal Reports. e.g. One can upgrade from Crystal Reports Basic to Crystal Reports 2008 but it is not possible to go the other way. Even though Crystal Reports Basic was released after Crystal Reports 2008, one cannot upgrade to a Crystal Reports Basic project as this would break the edition subset rule.

Here is a diagram to highlight the relationship, with the arrows pointing in the allowed migration paths.

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You may have noticed that there was no upgrade line from Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio 2008 to Crystal Reports 2008. That is because, at this time the Service Pack for Crystal Reports 2008 to support Visual Studio 2008 has not been released. It will come soon and it will be part of Crystal Reports 2008.