I have VS2010 installed with runtime and developer version of Crystal Reports v13.0.09, with absolutely no problems and has good speed for loading reports.
We installed VS2015 as we plan on converting over to it. With that said, we couldn't use 13.0.09 CR Dev anymore. We had to install 13.0.16.
After doing so, everything seemed okay. We could now add/edit reports in VS2015.
That's where the pleasant usage stopped. All reports, no matter how simple I make them, take forever. "Please wait while the document is processing" almost non-stop. If the report literally only has one line of data to show from a single database table, it still takes 10 seconds. I'm just looking at a very basic table with very basic data. There's literally nothing special going on here. I'm fairly comfortable with CR.
I figured maybe this was an issue with 2015, so I started up a new 2010 project. Lo and behold, I couldn't add the necessary .NET CR components to the project to be able to put a CrystalReportViewer object on my test form. After many hours of uninstalling all versions of CR, including runtimes, I solo-installed CR 13.0.16 dev and runtime.
Now I can add/edit CR documents/controls in both 2010 and 2015. Unfortunately however, now BOTH are insanely slow when its "processing" a report, sometimes never finishing processing. I end up crashing the program. Keep in mind that the same look-up in SQL would be instantaneous.
What am I missing? Is there some serious issue with 13.0.16 I'm unaware of?
