I've been in the IT industry for over a decade now and I have worked
with Crystal Reports on many occasions. Creating reports is simple.
Creating reporting applications has ALWAYS been a frustrating pain in
the behind. Crystal is supposed to be the premiere reporting
application -- I am losing confidence in this fact and will soon be
recommending alternate solutions to my clients.

I am trying to get a Windows Forms app to run on a server in a
background capacity. The application works fine on my developer's
machine, but I continue to get the following very bothersome error on
the server:

"Cannot find KeycodeV2.dll, or invalid keycode."

I have researched this error in the Crystal Knowledge Base and followed
its recommendations without avail. Futhermore, I have searched the
Google news groups and found that many others are frustrated by the
same thing. They have referred to the KB and followed its instructions
and still the same damn error! The KB results is a false hope. You
think you're onto something, but in the end you find your efforts are
in vain.

I have registered the license no. in VS.NET. I have registered the
keycodev2.dll. I have verified that all the necessary assemblies are
registered in the GAC or local folder. I have searched the net for
hours, going on days. This is sickening and disgusting. AND... this
is not the first time this has happened to me. I have run into Crystal
troubles in the past and have had to spend too many hours working out
the issues. Crystal keeps on enhancing the reporting features, but
they do very little by way of enhancing the ease with which developers
can create custom Crystal apps. I for one am getting FED UP with
Crystal. If they're going to support a KB, then I expect it to be
USEFUL. Run a Google search and you'll see how many others have been
frustrated by this same issue.

DID ANYONE EVER SOLVE IT?
Mario T. Lanza
Clarity Information Architecture, Inc.

I had similar frustrations- not sure which steps you followed by this worked
for me. http://www.knowdotnet.com/articles/crystal.html

--
W.G. Ryan, MVP

www.tibasolutions.com | www.devbuzz.com | www.knowdotnet.com
"Mario" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I've been in the IT industry for over a decade now and I have worked
> with Crystal Reports on many occasions. Creating reports is simple.
> Creating reporting applications has ALWAYS been a frustrating pain in
> the behind. Crystal is supposed to be the premiere reporting
> application -- I am losing confidence in this fact and will soon be
> recommending alternate solutions to my clients.
>
> I am trying to get a Windows Forms app to run on a server in a
> background capacity. The application works fine on my developer's
> machine, but I continue to get the following very bothersome error on
> the server:
>
> "Cannot find KeycodeV2.dll, or invalid keycode."
>
> I have researched this error in the Crystal Knowledge Base and followed
> its recommendations without avail. Futhermore, I have searched the
> Google news groups and found that many others are frustrated by the
> same thing. They have referred to the KB and followed its instructions
> and still the same damn error! The KB results is a false hope. You
> think you're onto something, but in the end you find your efforts are
> in vain.
>
> I have registered the license no. in VS.NET. I have registered the
> keycodev2.dll. I have verified that all the necessary assemblies are
> registered in the GAC or local folder. I have searched the net for
> hours, going on days. This is sickening and disgusting. AND... this
> is not the first time this has happened to me. I have run into Crystal
> troubles in the past and have had to spend too many hours working out
> the issues. Crystal keeps on enhancing the reporting features, but
> they do very little by way of enhancing the ease with which developers
> can create custom Crystal apps. I for one am getting FED UP with
> Crystal. If they're going to support a KB, then I expect it to be
> USEFUL. Run a Google search and you'll see how many others have been
> frustrated by this same issue.
>
> DID ANYONE EVER SOLVE IT?
> Mario T. Lanza
> Clarity Information Architecture, Inc.
>