Crystal Reports in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and issues for depoymentment

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 no longer includes Crystal Reports in the bundle.

In Visual Studio 2010, to create a Crystal Reports project or Web site or to import existing projects
or Web sites that were created by using older versions of Visual Studio or Crystal Reports, you must
first install a version of Crystal Reports that is compatible with Visual Studio 2010.

For more information about how to use Crystal Reports in Visual Studio 2010, visit the following SAP
Crystal Reports website:

http://www.sap.com/crystalreports/vs2010

Licensing:
Developers can use Crystal Reports for Visual Studio to do the following:

• Design unlimited reports for use in Visual Studio applications with the integrated Crystal Reports designer.



• Integrate the Crystal Reports run time engine into thick client Microsoft Windows applications.
  • Thick client applications with the embedded run time engine can be freely redistributed both within
    and outside the developers' own organization.
  
  


• Integrate the Crystal Reports run time engine into Web applications.
  • Web applications with the embedded run time engine can be freely redistributed within the developers ' own organization.
    • To redistribute Web applications outside the developers' organization for use by third parties,
      you must obtain written authorization. For more information, visit the following Business
      Objects Web site:
      http://www.businessobjects.com/product/catalog/crystalreports_visualstudio/licensing.asp
    
    
    • Web farms cannot be used to increase the scalability of the runtime engine.
    
    
  
  

Microsoft provides third-party contact information to help you find technical support. This contact information may
change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this third-party contact information.

The following visual studio addons for using crystal are available here.

• Standard EXE installation package which installs SAP Crystal Reports for Visual Studio into the
  Visual Studio 2010 IDE.


• Click-Once installation package used to create self-updating Windows-based applications which
  can be installed and run with minimal user interaction..


• Merge Modules installation package used to install components which are shared by multiple
  applications..


• Redistributable installation (32 bit).


• Redistributable installation (64 bit).
  

I hope this saves some time for you.