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Rob Debbage
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As Garry mentioned, the COM-based RDC was removed from Crystal Reports 2008 onward and there is no direct replacement so it comes down to how you were using Crystal Reports. - If you are not integrating Crystal with your ABL application then there should no barrier to upgrading to CR2013 (but it sounds like this is not the case). - If you are not displaying Crystal reports in your ABL application and only export or print them then you could theoretically continue to use the Crystal XI RDC runtime (which would normally be installed separately). Of course, support for this will become sketchier as time goes by and operating systems change. - If you were displaying reports within your ABL application using the Crystal ActiveX Viewer control then you would need to replace this code with code that references Crystal's .NET interface. You may need to jump through some hoops to get the Crystal assemblies in place (requiring Visual Studio, a separate download of the Crystal .NET assemblies as they were only designed to integrate with Visual Studio, etc.). Once done, there are a couple of simple examples in the Knowledge base (see articles 000013225 and 000056268) to give you a starting point.
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