Yes I would say believe your source. If you purchase any of the developer editions, those always include the components to integrate with development tools such as visual studio. The free crystal component inculded in visual basic 6 or the .net visual studios is always an older usually less capable version than what is current with Crystal Reports.

I have used visual basic 6 with both crystal reports version 8.5 and 10 using some of the components included in the developers editions. I have not attempted version XI or 2008 with vb6 however.

Look to see if they have a trial of the developer edition on their website that you might be able to use and see if it will meet your needs for your write, generate and save implementation.