Crystal Decisions problem

[Rich]

Hi,

I've created an application in VS 2002 using vb.net. My application contain
a Crystal Decisions report and when I run it on my development PC with VS
installed it works fine. However, when I install it on the users PC I get
this error :

System.IO.FileNotFoundException: File or assembly name
CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms was not found.

I thought that you could redistribute apps with Crystal Reports in them and
they would work without the user have to have a copy of Crystal Reports
installed? Can anyone tell me if this is correct, and if it is what I need
to do to get it to work - is there an update or patch to install?

Many Thanks
Richard

[Bernie Yaeger]

Hi Rich,

Yes, you can redistribute any CR report, and you don't have to install a
version of CR on each pc. However, you have to install the various merge
modules that CR makes freely available so that the reports can run properly
on each target machine.

Go to businessobjects.com and look up 'merge module' or '.net install' to
get the instructions necessary - it's not too difficult.

HTH,

Bernie Yaeger

"Rich" <richard> wrote in message
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Hi,

I've created an application in VS 2002 using vb.net. My application contain a Crystal Decisions report and when I run it on my development PC with VS
installed it works fine. However, when I install it on the users PC I get
this error :

System.IO.FileNotFoundException: File or assembly name
CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms was not found.

I thought that you could redistribute apps with Crystal Reports in them and they would work without the user have to have a copy of Crystal Reports
installed? Can anyone tell me if this is correct, and if it is what I need to do to get it to work - is there an update or patch to install?

Many Thanks
Richard

[Merlin]

Hi,

Yes you can redistrubute apps with Crystal reports and the end user does not
need Crystal Installed. I personally use Merge Modules from the Crysal
site - check out the link below which takes you to the support pages, from
here you should be able to search for the merge modules - it's then a simple
case of adding them to your installation project.

The files I always include with my projects are:-
crnetruntime.msm
mapping.msm
reportengine.msm

http://www.businessobjects.com/servi...rt/default.asp

Regards

"Rich" <richard> wrote in message
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Hi,

I've created an application in VS 2002 using vb.net. My application contain a Crystal Decisions report and when I run it on my development PC with VS
installed it works fine. However, when I install it on the users PC I get
this error :

System.IO.FileNotFoundException: File or assembly name
CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms was not found.

I thought that you could redistribute apps with Crystal Reports in them and they would work without the user have to have a copy of Crystal Reports
installed? Can anyone tell me if this is correct, and if it is what I need to do to get it to work - is there an update or patch to install?

Many Thanks
Richard