Install / Deployment Q

[Liz]

My app has several Crystal Reports embedded; I want to avoid using any
installers and just copy files to the app directory. Can I just mark all of
the Crystal references [Copy Local] = true and then do a file copy
installation? Or does Crystal insist on being registered?

TIA

[Rad [Visual C# MVP]]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:08:28 -0600, Liz wrote:

My app has several Crystal Reports embedded; I want to avoid using any
installers and just copy files to the app directory. Can I just mark all of
the Crystal references [Copy Local] = true and then do a file copy
installation? Or does Crystal insist on being registered?

TIA

I'd be amazed if that works. Crystal reports requires quite a bit of
underlying support infrastructure to do its work.

Out of curiosity, why don't you want an installer?
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[Liz]

"Rad [Visual C# MVP]" <no****@nospam.comwrote in message
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>My app has several Crystal Reports embedded; I want to avoid using any
installers and just copy files to the app directory. Can I just mark all
of
the Crystal references [Copy Local] = true and then do a file copy
installation? Or does Crystal insist on being registered?

TIA

I'd be amazed if that works. Crystal reports requires quite a bit of
underlying support infrastructure to do its work.

meaning ? needs several DLLs but why should that be a big deal?

Out of curiosity, why don't you want an installer?

I hate almost any process that is not as transparent as it can possibly be;
you create "packages" and those packages "run" ... and nobody knows what
happens when the package is created nor what happens when it runs ... it's
nuts, in my opinion; I really, really prefer to be able to see X number of
files in a folder and just copy 'em to another folder on a machine ... THEN
I KNOW what's in the program and what's on the machine. And if it causes a
problem, I know at laest one very good way to solve that problem.