App Deployment with Crystal Reports and XCOPY (VS2005)

[Liz]

I was intending to use an XCOPY install for a VS2005 C# WinForms app but
when I copied the files and ran the app on a clean machine it failed when it
needed Crystal Reports. Can you not use XCOPY deployment if you have
Crystal Reports dependencies?

Is there an available Crystal redistribution package I can run before doing
my XCOPY deployment?

TIA

[Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )]

On Mar 26, 1:32*pm, "Liz" <[e-mail]:

I was intending to use an XCOPY install for a VS2005 C# WinForms app but
when I copied the files and ran the app on a clean machine it failed when it
needed Crystal Reports. *Can you not use XCOPY deployment if you have
Crystal Reports dependencies?

Is there an available Crystal redistribution package I can run before doing
my XCOPY deployment?

TIA

CR needs merge modules, I do not know of any install setup (a la
dotnetframework.msi), you can create a setup project and install it
like that.

[Liz]

"Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )" <ig************@gmail.comwrote in
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On Mar 26, 1:32 pm, "Liz" <[e-mail]:

I was intending to use an XCOPY install for a VS2005 C# WinForms app but
when I copied the files and ran the app on a clean machine it failed when
it
needed Crystal Reports. Can you not use XCOPY deployment if you have
Crystal Reports dependencies?

Is there an available Crystal redistribution package I can run before
doing
my XCOPY deployment?

TIA

<< CR needs merge modules, I do not know of any install setup (a la
dotnetframework.msi), you can create a setup project and install it
like that >>
Thanks, Ignacio ... sounds right; but one thing I noticed is that if you
want to do XCOPY you can create a setup and then use the Crystal MSI that
gets created in the publish directories and run it independently of your
XCOPY.

[Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )]

On Mar 26, 2:30*pm, "Liz" <[e-mail]:

"Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )" <[e-mail] in
messagenews:ed**********************************@m 3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
On Mar 26, 1:32 pm, "Liz" <[e-mail]:

I was intending to use an XCOPY install for a VS2005 C# WinForms app but
when I copied the files and ran the app on a clean machine it failed when
it
needed Crystal Reports. Can you not use XCOPY deployment if you have
Crystal Reports dependencies?

Is there an available Crystal redistribution package I can run before
doing
my XCOPY deployment?

TIA

<< CR needs merge modules, I do not know of any install setup (a la
dotnetframework.msi), you can create a setup project and install it
like that >>

Thanks, Ignacio ... sounds right; *but one thing I noticed is that if you
want to do XCOPY you can create a setup and then use the Crystal MSI that
gets created in the publish directories and run it independently of your
XCOPY.

Hi,

I have never done it like that, when I have a solution that uses CR I
always create an MSI (at least for the first deployment).