VS 2008 Debugging: CrystalReports Cache

Question

I'm debugging issues from some CrystalReports documents through Visual Studio '08 (please, kill me now). In addition to the CrystalReports .NET libraries containing some of the worst interfaces I've ever seen, the web viewer for CrystalReports seems to behave strangely while debugging. Unlike regular .aspx pages, the CrystalReports documents don't seem to be live-updated while the debugger is running. A page refresh does not always retrieve the updated document. I can only imagine that VS is caching the documents themselves somehow. But I can't seem to figure out when it decides to dump the cache and retrieve the updated CrystalReports document. It's inconsistent at best. Sometimes my changes are reflected on a page refresh, sometimes not. Sometimes it won't even dump the cache when I do a full site rebuild.
I need to be able to make incremental changes and see them updated, as I haven't found any easier way of debugging CrystalReports. Does any one have some insight on how this caching works? My debugging is going extremely slowly because of this problem.
Tokenistic code (this would, obviously, be in an aspx page):

<CR:CrystalReportViewer runat="server" ID="CRV1" ReportSourceID="CRS1" />
<CR:CrystalReportSource ID="CRS1" runat="server">
            <report filename="CrystalReport.rpt" /> 
</CR:CrystalReportSource>

thanks, guys

Answer 1

i've got the same problem with the desktop app document viewer of CR. i asked about that caching mechanism in sap developer community forum.. no answer... a call at the BO hotline: minimum 200 EUR if i wanna have support....

mail me if you got some news about that