Add New Item Dialog Box Includes Crystal Reports
In an earlier section, you learned which Visual Studio version to install and how to install the Crystal Reports component manually, if you did not install it by default during your Visual Studio installation. See Visual Studio Versions.
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio includes an embedded report designer that allows you to create reports for your Windows applications or Web sites. A new report can only be added to an existing project. Crystal Reports for Visual Studio does not support stand alone report design. If you would like to develop reports using a stand alone report design tool, consider upgrading to Crystal Reports Developer.
To verify that Crystal Reports is installed
To verify that the Crystal Reports component of Visual Studio is installed, check that Crystal Reports appears in the Add New Item dialog box in Visual Studio.
Launch Visual Studio.
Create a new Web or Windows project (in any language), or open an existing Web or Windows project.
On the Project menu, click Add New Item.
Note
New report files must be added directly to a project. You cannot create a new Crystal report in Visual Studio through the File menu.
In the Add New Item dialog box, scroll down and verify that Crystal Reports is one of the available items.