I spent a lot of time playing (and just attempting to play) with the new CR2008. Both what's included out of the box with Visual Studio 2008 and their standalone application. There were a lot of surprises. I wrote an article about everything I learned about things like backwards compatiblitiy, integration into different versions of Visual STudio, etc. It's here on ASPAlliance: What Visual Studio Developers Should Know About Crystal Reports 2008