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Visual Studio 2005 and Crystal Reports
When you install Visual Studio 2005 Professional on your development computer, you get everything you need for adding Crystal Reports to your ASP.net 2.0 project or web site. However, your web server does not have Visual Studio 2005 Professional installed on it, which it shouldn't, which means your nice new reports will not work. What should you do?
Here's a possible scenario. Let's say that you already have a ASP.net project created and you added some pretty reports using Crystal Reports. You uploaded the web page that is embedded with the CrystalReportViewer object, the crystal report file, MyReport.rpt, and updated the web.config file on the web server to include the assemblies for Crystal Reports. However, when you try to view the report or any page on the website, you get an error message.
Thanks to this forum post, Where are Crystal Reports merge modules for VS2005?, here's what you can do. Download Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005 - Service Pack 1 and install it on the web server. Voila! Your Crystal Report should now be working.
Here a couple of links for downloading the file.
Crystal Reports Runtime Packages
If you're using Visual Studio 2005 and the web server is an x86, download "Crystal Reports for .NET Framework 2.0 x86 Redistributable Package (32 bit)"
Business Objects Downloads for Crystal Reports and Xcelsius
Click "Get Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports Server, and Xcelsius downloads". On the next page search for Software Product = Crystal Reports, Product Version = .NET, and Software Type = *.
Here's a possible scenario. Let's say that you already have a ASP.net project created and you added some pretty reports using Crystal Reports. You uploaded the web page that is embedded with the CrystalReportViewer object, the crystal report file, MyReport.rpt, and updated the web.config file on the web server to include the assemblies for Crystal Reports. However, when you try to view the report or any page on the website, you get an error message.
Thanks to this forum post, Where are Crystal Reports merge modules for VS2005?, here's what you can do. Download Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005 - Service Pack 1 and install it on the web server. Voila! Your Crystal Report should now be working.
Here a couple of links for downloading the file.
Crystal Reports Runtime Packages
If you're using Visual Studio 2005 and the web server is an x86, download "Crystal Reports for .NET Framework 2.0 x86 Redistributable Package (32 bit)"
Business Objects Downloads for Crystal Reports and Xcelsius
Click "Get Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports Server, and Xcelsius downloads". On the next page search for Software Product = Crystal Reports, Product Version = .NET, and Software Type = *.
ASP.NET 2.0, From the Workbench
by Ken Foubert | 1/2/2009 10:43am | Comments (3)
by Ken Foubert | 1/2/2009 10:43am | Comments (3)
Your site realy helps me, i wanted to get crystal report runtimes for which i looked all over until i found it in this site. Thanks a lot!
Left by Mamushiana Norman | May 17, 2009
Mamushiana , I'm glad that the links helped you out.
Left by Ken Foubert | May 18, 2009
I am looking for an article on Crystal Report Runtime configuration,
I have developed an application in VS 2005, it works well on the development server, now the same application has been moved to the production server where crystal report is not available while crystal report runtime is available. And my CR reports are not working.
My question is do I need to do any modification in the code to invoke CR runtime. Currently I am unable to view the reports created on the production ... I need help.
My version on CR report is 10.2.3600.0 and the production server run time version is 10.2.3700.0 does this matter, if yes what do I do?
Left by Jayachandran N | Jun 28, 2011