[DUG] Delphi XE2 and Crystal reports

[Robert Martin]

Hi

We are long time Crystal users and have hundreds of reports in Crystal 
8.5 format.  This is a very old version of Crystal which we are looking 
at updating.  Unfortunately Crystal ditched the ActiveX / Com runtime 
components, which we currently use, in version 11.5 (Crystal XI R2).  
The only supported runtime is now .net.  My understanding is that we 
should be able to import the .net libraries and access Crystal using it 
from Delphi XE2.  However I have read that this is not easily possible.

Does anyone have any experience with running versions of Crystal newer 
than XI R2 with Delphi (XE2)?

Thanks
Rob