App with Crystal Reports

[CodingYoshi]

I have an application with CrystalReports. The app works fine on the dev machine but fails on the production machine because of some Crystal .dll not loading. I have set Copy Local to true for all the crystal reference files therefore they are copied to the bin folder. I copy all files from the bin folder to the production machine but still fails. Any idea what else I should do?

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[Ennis Ray Lynch Jr]

You have to use the Crystal Reports redistributable msi and build an installer or have the user manually install the Crystal Redistributable for your given version. At least this is how this problem used to be fixed. I haven't deployed Crystal in a while.

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[N a v a n e e t h]

Using/Deploying crystal reports is a real pain :)

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[Ennis Ray Lynch Jr]

It just takes experience. There is a common theme in aviation that there are many pilots with 500 hours experience. Some have the same hour 500 times and some have an actual 500 hours. I think Crystal is the same way. The intro and learning curve is so steep that people initially only learn the hacks and then repeat thus giving it a bad rap. While there are many things I can do in Dev Express that I can't do in Crystal it isn't exactly a cake walk there either.

Need custom software developed? I do C# development and consulting all over the United States. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane

[CodingYoshi]

Thanks a bunch! I downloaded the merge module from http://resources.businessobjects.com/support/additional_downloads/runtime.asp#09[^] for VS 2005. I followed the steps in the word document file to create a setup project and add the downloaded module using Add, Merge Modules. Everything works fine. My next question is, do I have to bundle every app which has Crystal Reports with this module or once the module is added, I do not need to do it again. In other words, does it work similar as adding a .dll to GAC?

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[Ennis Ray Lynch Jr]

It has been a long time since I have made an installer but the msi should not reinstall itself it has already been installed. I would just leave it in the installer and it would work fine every time. But yes, if you install another app on the same computer with the same version of Crystal you will not need another msi, however, same is a word that will bite you on the rear, even in the .NET world.

Need custom software developed? I do C# development and consulting all over the United States. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane