I need to modify a static text (few words) in 3 rpt files. But I dont have Crystal Reports. How can I do it? Is there a free editor or software to be able to modify a simple text of the report?

Notepad/Notepad++ are text editors, and you're opening a file that is not text. It's a binary file. To read this file properly, you need the software that created it. You can view the content in a hex …

Sep 28, 2016 · Choose open existing and browse to your .RPT file. This should force Crystal Reports to attempt to open this file in the Visual Studio based Crystal Report designer.

Nov 29, 2016 · 3 I have a rpt dump that one of my colleagues gave. I need to open this file as a SQL Table (I presume that this is possible since he generated the rpt dump from the SQL …

I would like to extract the SQL queries from Crystal Report .rpt files, is there a way to do this? I don't have any of the Crystal Reports products, just the .rpt files.

Nov 28, 2021 · If anyone is having problems trying to load a .rpt file (it shows as a binary file) in Visual Studio 2022, try reinstalling SAP for Visual Studio as an administrator.

Jul 28, 2023 · I was seeing the "binary file, opening in different application" in Visual Studio Community 2022 although I had multiple Crystal Report applications and runtimes for VS …

May 10, 2017 · I am using Visual Studio 2008. While opening Crystal report .rpt file it shows some binary data instead of the designer file. I tried a lot of installs and uninstall for both 'VS2008' …

May 10, 2012 · The RPT file is actually quite nice as it contains fixed-width columns. If you have Excel, a relatively easy way of converting the result to CSV is to open the RPT file in Excel.

When I go to open a .rpt file in either Visual Studio 2010 or 2012. I don't get the report file layout design which I expect. I instead see either blank page or, in the case of VS2012, byte …