Licensing and support for Crystal Reports for Visual Studio

Microsoft supports set up and installation for the Crystal Reports products that are included in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, and in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. All other support is provided by Business Objects.

Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET is fully integrated in the following versions:

• Visual Studio .NET 2008
• Visual Studio .NET 2005
• Visual Studio .NET 2003
• Visual Studio .NET 2002

In the rest of this article, "Visual Studio" refers to any version of Visual Studio listed here.

Within Visual Studio 2008, Crystal Reports is known as 'Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio 2008' and is included in the Professional Edition and higher.

Technical Support

All users of Crystal Reports are eligible for free, forum-based technical support at the following Web site: For contact information, visit the following Web site:If you have not yet registered your software, use the Crystal Reports Registration Wizard in Visual Studio, or visit the following Business Objects Web site:

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 runtime engine into thick client Microsoft Windows applications.
  • Thick client applications with the embedded runtime engine can be freely redistributed both within and outside the developers’ own organization.
• Integrate the Crystal Reports runtime engine into Web applications.
  • Web applications with the embedded runtime 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 (http://www.businessobjects.com/product/catalog/crystalreports_visualstudio/licensing.asp)
    • Web farms cannot be used to increase the scalability of the runtime engine.

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