When designing websites for investment firms and other data analysis firms where reports are supposed to be designed and generated from very many different sources, it becomes cumbersome to generate these reports every time. So it was imperative to design a business intelligent application that can be used to generate reports from a wide range of data sources. These are known as reporting tools and the crystal reports are one such tool.
In fact it became the most sought after reporting tool after Microsoft released it with visual basic. The Crystal Report Editor is a tool that enables programmers to edit the content of the reports inside the crystal reports. Since the information generated inside the crystal reports are holistic and difficult to understand it was necessary to add a feature that could edit the information inside the crystal reports so that it could become more useful.
When Microsoft released the Microsoft visual basic 2013, with service pack 8, many developers discovered that it lacked the Crystal Report Editor so it became very hard to edit the reports generated. They had to accelerate the release of service pack 9 to correct this anomaly where you have to integrate CRVS into VS IDE and so you should run the install exe(!). Crystal report editing has its flaws especially when it fails to give an error after failing to display the report changes. In fact it appears the error information does not show when the packing plant is held or we try to create an installer.
At the time of making the application installer created with visual basic 2013, preview, if I double-click a *.RPT file, it opened in Notepad. Hence the crystal report could not edit the report.
In using the Crystal Report Editor, one can either download a crystal report software or you can use text objects in formular editor. The former is easier since it entails downloading the relevant software from the site and apply it on your report or data while the latter is relatively complex since text object cant be read using the formula editor in crystal report object. But you would be able to change the object value of the text by using .net. For instance: "rptObject" The varying applications of the Crystal Report Editor cannot be stressed harder such as; edit the show sql query in crystal report and distribution file downloads just to name a few.
To integrate " Crystal Report Editor , version for microsoft visual studio into visual studio 2010 or 2012 service pack 7 or visual studio 2013 for service pack 9, one has to run the code install executable. Since running the MSI code won't integrate the crystal reports into the visual studio since MSI files are for runtime distribution only. Also, Crystal Report Editor, the programmable version of visual studio .net cannot support the extra editions of any other type of visual studio .net.
A Crystal Reports Professional license is required to use Crystal Report Editor to run reports directly from a SQL Server database running sql server standard with read-only database assistance.