Visual Studio Crystal Reports Reference Path.

[former_member1252733]

Hello,

I was poking around my Visual Studio project the other day when I found out that if I open the project properties page and go to the "Reference Paths" tab, there is an entry as follows:

C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\Crystal Reports for .NET Framework 4.0\Common\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\win32_x86\dotnet\

I didn't put that entry there (or ate last I don't' remember I did) so I am guessing this was added by Crystal Reports somehow. Why was this reference path added? I am only asking because other third party tools don't do this so this seems kind of odd to me. Also, I decided to delete the reference path just to see what would happen and everything worked just fine. Is this reference path really necessary?

Thanks.

[former_member1252733 · Accepted solution]

Any ideas about how Crystal Reports for Visual Studio uses the mentioned reference path?

thanks.

[former_member11696 · Accepted solution]

Hi Rene,

When developing with CR we put all of the actuall dll's in that folder structure. Even though the assemblies are loaded from the GAC sometimes you need the original.

It's only on the DEV PC, Runtime redist packages only GAC the .NET dll's, some still need to be loaded from that location.

Some are COM, so they need to be local for the installer to REGSVR32 them.

Don