VS2005 Crystal Reports Deployment Problem

[Code Monkey]

I've just developed an Windows application that uses Crystal Reports
(v10 ? - the version that ships with VS2005).

Whilst the application works fine - reports can be viewed on the
development machine, when I create a setup project (which includes the
Crystal reports merge module), and deploy this setup file to another
machine (a fresh install of WinXP Pro with SP2), the reporting section
does not work...

How do I get the report viewer to work correctly on another machine?
The error I'm getting is:

************** Exception Text **************
System.Exception: Load report failed. --->
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80004005): The system
cannot find the path specified. at
CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ClientDoc.ReportClientDocumentClass.Open(Object&
DocumentPath, Int32 Options)
at
CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ReportClientDocumentWrapper.Open(Object&
DocumentPath, Int32 Options)
at
CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ReportClientDocumentWrapper.EnsureDocumentIsOpened()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at
CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ReportClientDocumentWrapper.EnsureDocumentIsOpened()
at CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument.Load(String
filename, OpenReportMethod openMethod, Int16 parentJob)
at CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportClass.Load(String
reportName, OpenReportMethod openMethod, Int16 parentJob)
at
CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument.EnsureLoadReport()
at
CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument.SetDataSourceInternal(Object
val, Type type)
at
CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument.SetDataSource(DataTable
dataTable)
at StudioTimeSheet.Reports.SingleReport.SingleReport_Load(Object
sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean
fIgnoreVisible)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
at
System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message&
m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32
msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


Thanks in advance.

 

[Code Monkey]

Problem solved.

Installed the CRRedist2005_x86.msi file on the non-development PC -
located in

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages\CrystalReports


everything works as it should.

 

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

Hi,

Thanks for the link, it helped me

Additionally you can download the MSM (merge file) from CR from
http://support.businessobjects.com/communityCS/FilesAndUpdates/cr_net_2005_mergemodules_mlb_x86.zip
and just add it as you did before in 2003