VB.Net standard + Crystal Reports

[sillysod]

Hi there,

I would like to get some clarification on exactly what i need to buy to be able to distribute crystal reports with my app because im getting so confused.

At the moment my company owns vb.net standard edition and crystal reports v8.5 (or is it v8 )

Now in order to put crystal report viewers into my app and distribute reports with the application, what, if anything, extra do i need to buy?

Or do i already have all the required licenses?

I believe i can compile reports into exe's with my version of crystal. So would i be best compiling them and just running them outside of my app, by just running the crystal exe via code?

 

[ThatRickGuy]

VS.Net (not sure about VB.Net standard) comes with Crystal Reports .Net (kinda a mix between 9 and 10). You can build CR reports in VS.Net, and refer to them like classes. Or you can use report built in your external CR developer (8 or 8.5) and open the file w/ a CR object. Once you have a CR object (either a CR.Net class, or a report loaded to the CR object) you can display it in a Crystal Reports Viewer.

Now at deployment, the fun begins. If your user all have CR installed on their machines, you should be able to deploy the app and be done.

If your users do NOT have CR installed, you'll want to goto the BusinessDecisions (Makers of CR) web site and find the walk through on deployment. Search their support for the following files:
license.msm,
reportengine.msm,
VC_CRT.msm,
VC_STL.msm

There should be an entry that has the walk through, and the download links for those files. Once you have the files, open your install package and drop the dotnetcrystalreports.msm file, then add the files listed above. You'll have to enter a key for the license.msm, I know keys from CR v9 work, I would assume your key from CR v8 (8.5) should work also.

If you happen to install on a Windows 2k Terminal Server, tou may run into licensing issues (2 people running a report at the same time). I haven't found a cure for this yet, so if you find something, post it.

-Rick


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[chrissie1]

Rick the standard edition doesn'tt have CR, and we are very happy that way.

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

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[ThatRickGuy]

Well then you don't have to exclude the DotNetCrystalReports.msm

-Rick

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[edderic]

To Christiaan Baes !

Ken jij de de Belgische "Visual Basic Group" ? ,indien nee ben je welkom en kan je je kennis delen met Belgische programmeurs.

zie

http://www.vbgroup.org

en meld je aan (onze site word vernieuwd en vergeet het lidgeld wat er staat,vanaf Mei is het gratis voor iedereen)

Bedankt op voorhand

Eric

Vice-voorzitter VBG Belgium



Eric De Decker
eric.de.decker@pandora.be

 

[sillysod]

come again

 

[ThatRickGuy]

Silly Swedes, Tek-Tips is in english

-Rick

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[chrissie1]

Silly english,

Tek-Tips is in dutch



Christiaan Baes
Belgium

If you want to get an answer read this FAQ faq796-2540
There's no such thing as a winnable war - Sting