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Wayne Wengert - 20 Jun 2004 01:08 GMT

I have a VS NET 2003 VB solution in which I created a setup and deployment
project. The setup & deployment object appears correct. The target system
has the 1.1 framework installed. When I distribute the resulting files (the
msi, setup.exe and setup.ini) and run the install, everything appears fine
but when I run the app on the target and use a process that invokes Crystal
Reports I get an error that it cannot find the crystal reports engine. In
the package and deployment project list, that dll is there?

Any thoughts on how to resolve this?

Wayne

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Sahil Malik - 20 Jun 2004 14:58 GMT

What is the error message? Also what OS do you get the error on?

- Sahil Malik
Independent Consultant
You can reach me thru my blog at -
http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sahilmalik/

> I have a VS NET 2003 VB solution in which I created a setup and deployment
> project. The setup & deployment object appears correct. The target system
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Wayne Wengert - 21 Jun 2004 13:09 GMT

Error is: " File or assembly name CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine, or
one of its dependencies, was not found.

The OS is WinXP Pro - same as the OS used to build the application.

Wayne

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Sahil Malik - 21 Jun 2004 18:37 GMT

I am sorry I don't have a direct solve it all answer to this, but I figured
I'd share the 10% information I had on this.

We had the same issue when we upgraded to .NET 1.1.

I don't remember too much about how we fixed it (though I can find out), but
I clearly remember that the crystal runtime wasn't properly being
distributed even though we had a proper setup and deployment created MSI. I
remember we had to painfully find each dll one by one and replace it and see
what it did.

As a quick shortcut, try finding all the crystal runtime dlls
(C:\WINDOWS\CRYSTAL?), and put them in the same directory as the
application - see if that works.

If you get tired of banging your head on this, I can ask a guy who I work
with who actually found the solution to this.

- Sahil Malik
Independent Consultant
You can reach me thru my blog - http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/sahilmalik/

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Wayne Wengert - 21 Jun 2004 19:16 GMT

Sahil;

Thanks... I'll try that.

Wayne

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Wayne Wengert - 22 Jun 2004 15:43 GMT

That didn't help! Bummer.

Wayne

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ambshah - 28 Jul 2004 18:47 GMT

try the support group at businessobjects the latest
owners of crystal
this is a known issue.
1) ms_vcrt dlls + stl dlls are required
2) if you installed VS on top of Crystal , Reinstal Crystal
3) use the MSM files for 2003
hth
Ambrish
www.Simplesoftconsultants.com

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