New Features in Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 9.0 Beta 1
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 9.0 Beta 1 has many new features.
- Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 9.0 Beta 1 projects are supported on 64-bit machines. See 64-Bit Support.
- Crystal Reports fully supports the new ClickOnce deployment of Windows applications introduced in Visual Studio 9.0 Beta 1. See ClickOnce Deployment of Windows Applications.
- Code snippets for Crystal Reports are available when building Web Sites or Windows projects using Visual Basic. See Code Snippets.
- Several improvements have been made to the CrystalReportViewer control. See CrystalReportViewer Controls.
- Crystal Reports project deployment has been improved. See Crystal Reports Deployment.
- Accessibility has been improved in Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 9.0 Beta 1. See Enhanced Accessibility Support.
- Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 9.0 Beta 1 supports international characters through Unicode and GB18030-2000, the Chinese character encoding standard. See International Character Support (Unicode and GB18030).
- In Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 9.0 Beta 1, the Preview tab has been added to the embedded Crystal Reports Designer to enable you to preview reports at design time. See Preview Tab.
- Project templates can be selected when creating a new Web Site or Windows project, to view an example of a Crystal report displayed within the CrystalReportViewer control. See Project Templates.