Crystal Reports xi r2 integrating with vs2005

[Former Member]

Hi,

I'm having a problem getting these two integrated and working properly with all the functionality that I need.

I installed vs2005 and then CRXIR2, and now in vs2005 when I have a report open, I have 2 Crystal Report tabs at the top and in each the options are repeated 4 times for each menu item, makes for a very cluttered menu.

Also, when I an existing report to a vb2005 asp project in the property pages/web config it adds 2 assemblies for each items, one for version 10.2.3600 and one for 11.5.3700. Is there a way that I can eliminate this.

And lastly, I use ODBC connections to a database and with the 10.2.3600 assemblies it was disconnecting right away and closing the session after the queries, while the new 11.5.3700 ones do not seem to kill the sessions and fills up the connections until I manually go out and clear them up.

I know thats a lot to deal with, but I'm sure that they are all related.

Thank you very much for your help.

James

[former_member184995 · Accepted solution]

Hi James,

Microsoft released an update for VS.NET 2005 which broke the integration of Crystal XI R2 with .NET 2005 when applied. Just do an uninstall/reinstall of Crystal XI R2 and that should fix the multiple tab and drop down issue as well as it putting in both 10.2 and 11.5 assemblies.

You should probably create a new thread for the 2nd problem if it persists after the uninstall/reinstall.

Jason

[Former Member]

I recommend you use the OLEDB providers instead of ODBC. They are faster and you do not have to set up data sources on all the users PCs.

[Former Member]

Thanks a lot.

Will go ahead and do that.

Thanks.