I have a bit of a problem. It has been a few years since I used Crystal Reports back when I had Crystal Developer XI. I recently purchased SAP Crystal Reports 2016. I installed the package on Windows Server 2008 Release 2. This is our backup server and the machine that we do all of our development on.
The Crystal Reports installed properly and after a quick reboot I created and tied in a report to my database. This was slightly different than the old way but it was fairly easy to figure out. The next task was to quickly get my "test" report into my HMI. I added the .rpt file to my Visual Studio 2012 project and started to add a CrystalReportViewer. I went to Visual Studio tools bar and there was no Crystal Reports Viewer tools.
I looked online and I saw that people on here had recommended a download that would incorporate the Crystal Reports Viewer in the Visual Studio tool bar. The problem is, that link appears to have Crystal Reports 13.X.X.?? whereas when I check my help I see that I have:
Version 14.2.2.1975
CR Developer
Is there something I should do to get the tool bar item. I continued on figuring I would just create the viewer without dragging a dropping by putting it in the designer manually. This is when I noticed that my old familiar .dlls are no where to be found. I had always programmed by adding the following:
CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine
CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms
CrystalDecisions.Shared
CrystalDecisions.ReportSource
Have these been replaced by something else? I am at a loss as all of the examples I see require these references to be loaded into the project and I don't have them.....that I know of. I checked all through the Crystal Reports installation area. I did not check the Windows directory.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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