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Anyone Used Crystal Version 10 or XI?

From Crystal Reports for .NET Feature Overview

The Crystal Reports product as a whole resolved more than 1000 issues existing in previous versions of Crystal Reports. CR.NET was a major beneficiary of this focus in terms of product quality and stability.

Wow. That’s a lot of issues. Good for them. Hope they got em all. Has anyone used the Version 10 in a production environment?

Brendan

Published Feb 28 2005, 02:02 PM by Brendan Tompkins

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Raymond Lewallen said:

Yeah, and it took 8 months to get rid of the piece of crap. Kept crashing the worker process attempting to bring up reports. Couldn't even get the process reloaded and would have to reboot. After 6 months in production, a plan to automatically reboot twice a week was implemented until we could get rid of crystal completely.

# February 28, 2005 11:18 AM

Stefano Demiliani said:

On our previous project, we've migrated lots of report written with the ver. 8.5 to the new 10.0. The migration process was not so easy but we was out with reports built on the new release.

# February 28, 2005 11:32 AM

Brendan Tompkins said:

Raymond, you were using Version 10? I had loads of problems with the versions that shipped with VS 2002, and we migrated off for our public site.

But, from the looks of things XI, is supposed to be brand spanking new. "Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again", right?

But, since they were bought by BO, I'm inclined to be more optimistic..

# February 28, 2005 11:43 AM

Raymond Lewallen said:

Version 10 yes. The number of issues and problems caused by crystal was incredible. I'll never go back, I've been permanently scarred.

# February 28, 2005 12:28 PM

Jordan said:

Hey Brendan, love the Bush reference. :o)

# February 28, 2005 12:33 PM

Brendan Tompkins said:

What Bush reference? We're non-political here at CodeBetter. ;)

# February 28, 2005 12:49 PM

Darrell said:

The more things change, the more they stay the same:
http://codebetter.com/blogs/darrell.norton/archive/2004/01/16/5670.aspx

# February 28, 2005 1:21 PM

av said:

we are using crystal 10 for our asp.net application. the reports are rendered by passing dataset to them at runtime and getting them rendered on crystal report user control.

the performance of the reports really horrible. it takes about 5 to 10 seconds just to render the report ( this does not include time to get the dataset from database). so every report in our application takes about minimum 5 to 10 seconds..client will never expect to wait so much time..and even worse, if the dataset size is more. it can take upto few minutes..

did anyone of you faced this kind of problem?

# October 6, 2005 10:16 AM

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About Brendan Tompkins

Brendan has been programming with .NET since the first public beta and is owner and operator of Port Technology Services, a consultancy company providing .NET application development services to the Maritime industry. In July, 2007, he was awarded the Microsoft MVP award for ASP.NET. He's also a proud co-founder of failed .COM startup Intrinsigo, and has had a hand in the failure of numerous other businesses. He currently runs CodeBetter.Com and Devlicio.us, and lives in Norfolk, Virgina with his wife Tiara and son Ian.