Crystal Services

Crystal Services allows you to access a Crystal report as a Server File through a web service. With Crystal Services, you can host all of your reports on a central server, which makes report management and version control easier. You can load a report from a web application or a windows application using a web service.

Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005 and later allow only programmatic access to Crystal Services. The Crystal Services node is no longer accessible in the Server Explorer.

For a detailed description of Crystal Services, see Using Crystal Services.