deployment project trouble

[Former Member]

Hi, sorry I'm brand new to this. I am adding a web deployment project to our solution for the first time. My environment is vs2003 and I have CR XIR2 but the other developers have v9 of crystal which I think came out of the box with vs2003. We are still on .Net 1.1 for the foreseeable future.

I have just added the Primary Output and Content Files to WebSetup1 and I am at the step where you exclude stdole.exe and dotnetfxdist_x86_enu.msm. The dotnet one is already exluded but is listed as dotnetfxdist_x86.msm but the stdole.dll is not in the list. Can someone tell me if this is due to my configuration? i.e. perhaps the instructions I am looking at are for .net 2.0 or vs2005?

Also, just a general question. We are in the process of upgrading the dev environment to vs2005. Will I need to repeat any of this deployment once we have moved everything over or should this just transfer to 2005?

And finally, on our Live app we just deploy dlls, no other files at all so I am just wondering if this is the best deployment strategy for me i.e. using the merge module method? It seems to be so but just wanted to ask the experts. Thanks and sorry if these are too many questions and if they are covered in another thread. I did search first and couldn't find a clear answer on this.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi, Dan;

No problem, we're here to help.

First, I'm not sure which instructions you are following. For the version of CR that ships with .NET 2003 (version 9.1), use the following:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/10ae17a6-a41d-2b10-eb9f-8dfb2a88...

Using merge modules is the preferred, and only supported method.

Once you upgrade to .NET 2005, you would need to redeploy everything using the correct Merge Modules for the version of Crystal Reports that you are using.

Best Regards,

Jonathan

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the response but I was using the instructions for crystal 11, release 2 because I have upgraded to this version on my machine only and wrote reports in that version of crystal. The other developers have version 9 installed out of the box with VS but none of them are using it. The instructions I am following are at:

http://devlibrary.businessobjects.com/BusinessObjectsXIR2/en/en/CrystalReports_dotNET_SDK/crsdk_net_...

Should I uninstall crystal 11.5 and redo my reports in CR9? If the other developers start to use crystal they will be using 9 so would there be a conflict at that point or could they deploy a separate web setup project for their version 9 reports? Thanks!

UPDATE (sept 11):

I uninstalled Crystal 11 and it removed Crystal completely from my IDE, was hoping it would leave 9 installed. So I had to reinstall the bundled version of 9 from my VS disks. For the best really since now I can follow the nice instructions you gave me.

Thanks again,

Dan

Edited by: Dan C on Sep 11, 2008 4:35 PM