can you force CR Runtime to use different minor version?

[rvan]

My customer could not install our program (which includes CR Runtime for Visual Studio CRPE32 ver 13.0.10) because it said "another newer version is already installed". We use VS2013. Customer has a different app also installed that uses CR 13.0.21. From reading posts I understand that these 2 minor versions cannot be installed side by side, but is there any way to force CR to use the already installed ver 13.0.21 without us having to compile our system with that specific runtime. I seem to remember seeing some sort of switch on another product that said something like "allow use of any minor version". It would be great if CR would allow that. If not, how can you run two apps on the same pc that each have a different minor ver of the CR Runtime? Seems like there should be a way to do that.

[former_member11696 · Accepted solution]

Hi Ron,

You can go backwards but not forwards...

On the download WIKI page:

https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Crystal+Reports%2C+Developer+for+Visual+Studio+Downloads

There's a side by side KBA.

You can install SP 31, uninstall older version first, and then for those other programs use the redirect in the XML file to allow those old programs to use the recent SP, just create ThereAppName.exe.xml with the redirect in it and the old app should work with the SP 31 runtime.

Otherwise let them know they need to upgrade, we don't support older than 2 versions and cannot patch any version because we only release full builds.

And mention those older versions are exposed to security issues, current build have all updates we have implemented so far.

Don