| Feature |
Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio 2008 |
Crystal Reports 2008 |
| Data Access |
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| Comprehensive data connectivity |
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| Enhanced Web Services data driver |
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| Native Database Drivers for Oracle, IBM DB2, salesforce.com, etc. |
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| OLAP Data Sources |
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| Report Design |
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| WYSIWYG Integrated Report Designer (IDE) |
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| Custom functions support |
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| Embed images from an http URL or UNC path |
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| On-report Interactive Parameters and Sorting |
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| Add calculated fields to crosstabs without coding |
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| Design-time preview editing the report while previewing it with data |
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| Dynamic and cascading parameters |
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| Embed dynamic Flash/Flex content into reports without any coding |
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| Flexible report pagination control |
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| Geographical Maps support |
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| Hierarchical grouping support |
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XML Export with embeddable XSLT
transformations |
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| Application Development |
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| Royalty-free runtime for thick-client applications |
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| .NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 Framework support |
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| WebForm and WinForm .NET Viewer |
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| Cascading Style Sheets for customizing WebForm Viewer |
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| ClickOnce deployment |
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| Vista support |
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| MSI Deployment |
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| MSM Deployment |
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| .NET 1.1 Framework support |
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| Comprehensive report creation and modification API |
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