Crystal Reports with VB

[cgagnon]

I am trying to figure out how to use Crystal Reports & VB together (I am new at both). I downloaded the "First Class Hotels" sample from the Crystal Decision site (support.crystaldecision.com/fix/topdownloads), and tried to run it by double-clicking on the HotelSample.vbp.
I got the message "rptCustomer was not a loaded control class".
I couldn't find any information on what I have to do to get this application to execute on my PC. There is an htm file but it is no help.
e.g. do I need to set up some kind of environment?
do I need to add classes?

If anyone out there has managed to get this application to run on their PC, I would really appreciate some help.
Thank you.

 

[balves]

Well, you need Crystal on your PC that can talk to VB.

What version of Crystal do you have?

 

[cgagnon]

Thank you for answering.
I have Crystal 8.5

 

[balves]

Do you have V8.5 Developer?

If you have V8.5 Professional, you'll have a problem.

 

[cgagnon]

I have the Professional Edition.
Does that mean that I cannot run this application?

 

[balves]

Unfortunately, starting with V8, Crystal split the product into 3 versions: Standard, Professional, Developer.

Crystal Developer has the VB support.

You're not the first person (or 100th) to find this out after the fact.