Questions on Visual Studio 2003/2005

Questions on Visual Studio 2003/2005

• Byebye

  Hello Robert,
  
  You can deploy a web app using the Crystal Reports components that are included with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2.
  
  As Visual Studio 2005 is a beta product our full shipping versions of our products can not support it. 
  
  Keith - Business Objects
  
  

• GeorgeBush

  Thanks Sperin,

  I was having the same problem. I don't remember BO sending out an email on this update. And i didn't see it on there service packs / hotfixes page. I know there are quite a few developers that will run into this issue.

  Thanks
  Rick

  
  
  

• mschetu

  Hello everyone!

  If some reports are developed in Crsystal reports.net v1.1 and some one try to run those reports with dot net framework v2.0 then will it work or will there be any settings required for that

  
  
  

• Brunao

  Let me explain my problem:

  I developed a project in Dot net v1.1 named WMS which was hosted on an ISP. I used Crystal reports dot net for my reporting. The ISP had dot net framework v1.1 and my project ran successfully.

  After 3 months they changed the framework to dot net framework v2.0. They configured our project. The webpages were running fine but the Crystal reports were not shown. Let me give you an idea of how i generate the reports from aspx page:

  Dim rpt As New CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument
  rpt.Load(Server.MapPath("CR_ExMaReFrSi.rpt"))
  rpt.SetDataSource(DsExcessMate)
  rpt.SetDatabaseLogon("LoginId","Password")
  CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = rpt

  This is a code behind a form where i pasted the Crystal Report Viewer control. "CR_ExMaReFrSi.rpt" is my report name. "DsExcessMate" is the data set with which i have bound the report.

  The answer given by Sperin seems to be logical but it even more confused me. Because i have developed an application recently in dotnet v1.1 and a few days before, i hosted that application on the same ISP where they configured in on framework v2.0 and again i used Crystal reports dot net. In this particular project the same method is used to generate reports and the reports are running.

  One more thing that i would like to add here is: In the later project i didn't bound the reports. These reports are parameterized and were very simple. I send the parameters in the query string. But in WMS project i bounded the reports with Datasets. Now, what do you say after listening to the whole scenario

  
  
  

• lostantipodean

  I also created an MSI from the merge modules and installed it but that didn't help. I tried downloading the XI R2 and installing it, but I don't own a copy of XI R1 so I don't have a registration key......

  I'm still confused - if it is included in VS2005 (Beta and RTM) why would I have to pay to upgrade to XI R2

  
  

• Wayne Atherton

  I've just upgraded my app from beta 1 to beta 2. I'll see if I have better luck to deploy it now. Thanks for the help.
  
  /Robert
  

• Detlef S.

  We have an asp.net application that was developed in VS Beta 2. It uses the crystal reports libraries that came with VS2005 beta2 and reports developed in CR 9. For the most part, all works fine.

  We are now in the process of migrating to VS2005/SQL2005 RTM. While testing we found that our crystal reports do not all work any more. There's problems passing in data, dynamically assigning datasource parameters (server/database/user/password) and we also have problems presenting the resulting PDFs.

  What has changed from Beta2 to RTM Are there any web sites or white papers describing an upgrade process.

  
  

• kumar 123

  Release 2 certainly does fix some problems, but how does it affect the licensing It seems by using Crystal Reports XI Release 2 you are using a full version of crystal reports and you are bound by that licensing structure instead of the more relaxed structure provided by Visual Studio .NET (2003/2005).
  
  My big concern with using CR XI R2 is that I'll have to distribute a full copy of Crystal Reports Developer to each customer because I allow printing on a Web server and have a Terminal Server of sorts (multiple people connecting to one application). Using the embeeded copy of Crystal Reports, the requirement of shipping a Developer copy to each customer doesn't exist.
  
  
  Can someone please tell me that I'm wrong Please
  
  Thanks
  
  

• Antwan43868

  Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005 is a specialized version of Crystal Reports with some XI features (e.g. Integrated Authentication support) and some features specific to functionality only available to the bundeld version (e.g. Object Collections support).< xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

   

  Visual Studio < xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />.NET 2002 and 2003 users can upgrade to Crystal Reports version 10 or XI(11) today.

   

  There will be an update to Crystal Reports XI (11) that will provide compatibility with Visual Studio 2005.  How the Visual Studio compatibility is delivered is still to be determined, however it will be no cost to existing owners of Crystal Reports XI.
  
  Keith - Business Objects

  
  
  

• ssamayoa

  Thanks a lot for the clarification
  

• Andrew Chudley

  could you pls help me out... i get this wierd error

  Method 'ISCREditableRTFExportFormatOptions_reserved5' on type 'CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ReportDefModel.EditableRTFExportFormatOptionsClass' from assembly 'CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ReportDefModel, Version=11.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304' is overriding a method that has been overridden.

  when i try to export my reports from the crystal reports viewer. Im using CRXI r2 and VStudio 2003. My aspx pages are hosted on a server with .net frwk 2.0

  
  
  

• desifunde

  This post should be updated.  Crystal Reports now has a "Release 2" that is supposed to support Visual Studios 2005.  Go to the following link and it will describe how you can upgrade your CR11, to the new "Release 2". 
  
  http://www.businessobjects.com/products/reporting/crystalreports/compatibility_vs2005.asp#businessobjectsenterprise
  
  This should fix the errors mentioned above.  Although it is a slow 1 gig+ download.  I am currently downloading this update right now, so I have not tested whether or not this specific error is fixed, but heres hoping.
  
  
  
  
  

• xxhax

  what can we do while we wait for Microsoft to release VS 2005 and BO on their update
  
  Is there no way to deploy web apps done in VS 2005 Beta together with some version of Crystal Reports

  
  

• Shteff

  The report will work with any recent Crystal reports versions all the way up to Crystal reports 11.  The issue with .Net 1.1 and 2.0 is on the "report generation" side of things not the developement of the reports themselves.  So it does not matter what framework you develope the reports in, they are saved in Crystal format to whatever version of Crystal you are using.  The issue with .net versions crops up when you are trying to load the report and generate an instance of it and display it on the web. 

  So if you have .Net 2.0 on the server that you are generating the reports (not developing the reports) then you will need to get the new release as mentioned in the above messages.

  Hopefully this makes some kind of sense, I was starting to confuse myself while writing it.

  
  
  
• Questions on Visual Studio 2003/2005