64-Bit Application Support

Applications built on a .NET 2.0 Framework or later can target 32-bit or 64-bit machines. Itanium (IA64) and x64 64-bit architecture are supported.

Building a 64-bit application

You can build a 64-bit application under the following scenarios:

• The 32-bit Crystal Reports for Visual Studio on a 32-bit Windows operating system.
• The 32-bit Crystal Reports for Visual Studio on a 64-bit Windows server. The server administrator must install the 64-bit common language runtime and the 64-bit Crystal Reports components on the server.
• The 32-bit Crystal Reports for Visual Studio under WOW64 (the x86 emulator that runs 32-bit applications on a 64-bit machine) on a 64-bit Windows server or workstation. The 32-bit and 64-bit components must be installed on the same machine, but in different directories.

Deploying and Configuring a 64-bit application

When deploying .NET Framework applications on a 64-bit machine, deployment components that support 64-bit machines must be added to the deployment project. For Web Sites, the 64-bit Crystal Reports runtime components must be installed on the web server.

Once you have deployed your application, you must install the Crystal Reports 64-bit configuration application before running the application.