The converter for Crystal Reports is available to you after installing List & Label in the directory ..\<INSTALLDIR>\Examples\Microsoft .NET\.NET Framework 4\WinForms\Crystal Reports Converter Sample\. This is a programming example in the source code so that you can make adjustments yourself at any time. Further details on the automatically migrated content and the exceptions to the converter can also be found in the CrystalReportsConverter.chm help file installed in the documentation directory of the List & Label installation.
Please note that the Crystal Reports Converter shown here is merely an aid to save you time during the changeover. However, the approaches of the two report generators Crystal Reports and combit List & Label are very different, so that manual reworking may still be necessary. If you have a large number of existing report templates in the application or customised report templates from users, a so-called migration path can be provided in the existing application for a certain transition period. This should provide the necessary time to implement the complete changeover of reporting. To do this, you can use the existing report templates as ‘read-only’ for creating the reports without making any further changes to them. This means that individual existing report templates from Crystal Reports can be converted to List & Label step by step and with the full range of functions. And only List & Label is then used for new report templates in the application.
The converter requires the latest version of Crystal Reports for Visual Studio which can be downloaded for free from http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-7824, provided you have a Visual Studio license.
Alternatively you can use the List & Label DOM interface (Document Object Model) to create project files dynamically at runtime (Professional Edition and higher). If you can access the Crystal Reports object model from your source code, you could convert the objects and properties yourself. In this case the included converter is likely to be a very good template to begin with.