Crystal Reports Integration with VB .Net

[Scott]

Can anyone tell me if the MS Visual Basic .Net Standard
IDE contains the necessary modules to integrate Crystal
Reports into a distributable app?

[William Ryan]

Standard doesn't include Crytsal so you won't be able to create them from
there. However, if you have another version of the IDE, or have an
assembly that has already compiled reports and you link it to your VB.NET
standard, you should be ok. I don't think the installation merge modules
are available, but I'm not positive. You could copy the MSM's though, as
long as you specify the License Key and build it with another IDE.

HTH,

Bill
"Scott" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Can anyone tell me if the MS Visual Basic .Net Standard
IDE contains the necessary modules to integrate Crystal
Reports into a distributable app?

Forgive my newbie status but what do you mean by MSM's? I
have Crystal Reports 8.5 Professional installed on the
development machine ... don't know if that makes any
difference.

Cheers,

Scott.

-----Original Message-----
Standard doesn't include Crytsal so you won't be able to create them fromthere. However, if you have another version of the IDE, or have anassembly that has already compiled reports and you link it to your VB.NETstandard, you should be ok. I don't think the installation merge modulesare available, but I'm not positive. You could copy the MSM's though, aslong as you specify the License Key and build it with another IDE.
HTH,

Bill
"Scott" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in messagenews:05****************************@phx.gbl...

Can anyone tell me if the MS Visual Basic .Net Standard
IDE contains the necessary modules to integrate Crystal
Reports into a distributable app?

.

[William Ryan]

The MSM is a 'merge module' which is something that you can include in your
setup projects. With Crystal, there are various MSM's that you need to have
run on the client machine before the reports will work. One of them is the
licensing component, regwiz.msm and there are a few others that will load
the database drivers.

HTH,

Bill
<an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Forgive my newbie status but what do you mean by MSM's? I
have Crystal Reports 8.5 Professional installed on the
development machine ... don't know if that makes any
difference.

Cheers,

Scott.

-----Original Message-----
Standard doesn't include Crytsal so you won't be able to

create them from

there. However, if you have another version of the IDE,

or have an

assembly that has already compiled reports and you link

it to your VB.NET

standard, you should be ok. I don't think the

installation merge modules

are available, but I'm not positive. You could copy the

MSM's though, as

long as you specify the License Key and build it with

another IDE.

HTH,

Bill
"Scott" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in

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Can anyone tell me if the MS Visual Basic .Net Standard
IDE contains the necessary modules to integrate Crystal
Reports into a distributable app?

.

[Scott]

Bill,

Thanks for your help and suggestions. It seems that I
will have to talk our people into spending $2000 (AUD) on
the Visual Studio IDE to get all the things that are
needed.

Cheers,

Scott.

-----Original Message-----
The MSM is a 'merge module' which is something that you can include in yoursetup projects. With Crystal, there are various MSM's that you need to haverun on the client machine before the reports will work. One of them is thelicensing component, regwiz.msm and there are a few others that will loadthe database drivers.

HTH,

Bill
<an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Forgive my newbie status but what do you mean by MSM's? I have Crystal Reports 8.5 Professional installed on the
development machine ... don't know if that makes any
difference.

Cheers,

Scott.

>-----Original Message-----
>Standard doesn't include Crytsal so you won't be able to

create them from

>there. However, if you have another version of the

IDE, or have an

>assembly that has already compiled reports and you link

it to your VB.NET

>standard, you should be ok. I don't think the

installation merge modules

>are available, but I'm not positive. You could copy

the MSM's though, as

>long as you specify the License Key and build it with

another IDE.

>
>HTH,
>
>Bill
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[Brett O'Callaghan]

"Scott" <sp*****@no.optusnet.spam.com.au> wrote:

Thanks for your help and suggestions. It seems that I
will have to talk our people into spending $2000 (AUD) on
the Visual Studio IDE to get all the things that are
needed.

You can go the upgrade version from just about anything and get it for
a tad under $1000.