Upgrade to CR 2020 from CR 2013 and select the runtime

[former_member810218]

Hi,

We were CR 2013 stand alone version for development and call that .rpt file in our .net application. In our IIS, we installed 13.0.2 runtime and it was working fine. Now i downloaded CR2020 and I refreshed the report and put in the server with the same run time, it is working .. Is there anything i can expect which will block my reports. I have windows desktop application as well as web application in IIS which uses this. In my desktop, i am including CR dlls in the bin folder and is working. So please confirm any other run time for CR 2020. i read online that, CR will work on any runtime 64 bit.

Thanks in advance,

Sismail

[DellSC · Accepted solution]

The internal structure of the .rpt file did not change for CR 2020 except to add new features and to accept 64-bit database connections. So, reports created in CR 2020 should work with your current runtime. However, the 13.0.2 runtime is very old and out of support. So, you'll want to look at upgrading your applications if possible.

The application needs to be compiled with the same version of the SDK as the runtime that you're using, so you can't just install the new runtime and expect it to work with the an application that was compiled with an older version. Also, you will probably have to tweak the Crystal code a bit to work with the latest version of the SDK. See the Crystal for VS wiki for more information.

-Dell

[former_member810218]

Hi,

Thanks for your help.

I am using this in my web.config file

<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Web, Version=13.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304" />

To update to the latest version, i tried installing the latest SAP Crystal Reports for Visual Studio (SP32) runtime engine for .NET framework MSI, but this dlls are not installing in C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\Crystal Reports for .NET Framework 4.0\Common\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\win32_x86\dotnet but when i install "SAP Crystal Reports for Visual Studio (SP32) installation package for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE (V..." this is installing. I cannot use this same in my IIS server where I dont have any ID. Let me know how can i proceed with this.

regards,

Sismail