Possible config problems involving CR and Visual Studio 2008

[Former Member]

My problem is a bit complex. This seemed like a good place to start.

In brief, someone who will remain nameless wrote a website using VS2005 (including major use of CR). Now I have to convert it to Dot Net 3.5 (VS2008.) It is my understanding that Crystal Reports was standard equipment with both VS2005 and VS2008.

For starters the existing web.config has a reference to CR components, version 10.2. My machine apparently has versions 10.5 and 13 loaded. What is correct for VS2008?

Edited by: BChernick on Aug 5, 2011 7:20 PM

[former_member11696 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

First the Report Designer forum is not a good place to start unless you have Design questions so I moved your post to the .NET SDK forum.

The runtime for CR basic for VS 2005 is 10.2, the runtime for CR basic for VS 2008 is 10.5. The runtime for CR for VS 2010 is 13.x.

So you must also have VS 2010 installed, CR for VS 2010 will not install into VS 2008 and/or should not be used in any other VS other than 2010.

Make a copy of the 2005 project and then open it up in VS 2008, it should ask you if you want to update the runtime, click yes. Now your references should be 10.5.

Your project should simply run now, you do need to deploy the CR 10.5 Redist package runtime onto the WEB server.

Search here as well as the Kbase system for lots of Deployment answers, what is required, how to, and WEB config settings.

Also, CR for VS 2010 now gives you full access to all CR API's using RAS. Much more powerful than CR Basic for VS.

Don