Prompt to convert every time after upgrade to Visual Studio 2017 using CRforVS_13_0_23

[former_member587476]

Upgrading a Visual Studio 2008 solution to Visual Studio 2017. Upgraded Crystal Reports from cr2008_sp3 to CRforVS_13_0_23. Ever since the upgrade, every time I open the project in Visual Studio, I get the Crystal Reports Project Conversion prompt that "Your solution was created using an older or unknown version of SAP Crystal Reports. Your solution will be converted to using the newer version of SAP Crystal Reports, version for Microsoft Visual Studio. If you choose not to convert, some design-time may not" Options are to Convert the Solution (with option to create a backup) or Open the solution without conversion. I have tried both options and the prompt still happens every time. I have read numerous support entries regarding this, but none have a clear solution. I have created a brand new Visual Studio project and copied one report from the original project and immediately get the prompt for the new project. Even after deleting the one report that was copied over, I still get the prompt.

Where is the link to the older/unknown version? How do I get rid of it?

[DellSC · Accepted solution]

I would open each report in the project and re-save them with the new version of Crystal. This will update the internal format of the .rpt files and will hopefully get rid of the issue for you.

-Dell

[former_member587476 · Accepted solution]

I have tried that, but no success. I have even created a new report, and selected the "From an Existing Report" option, but that too failed.

[DellSC · Accepted solution]

Go through the References in your project and make sure that none of the Crystal assemblies are still pointing to the old version. Do you still have the old version of the SDK installed on your computer? You might also try uninstalling that so that you only have the newer version available.

-Dell

[former_member587476 · Accepted solution]

Everything related to the old versions has been uninstalled and removed from References... no success.

[DellSC · Accepted solution]

I 'm at the limits of what I know to check. Hopefully don.williams will be able to assist.

-Dell

[former_member11696]

Try right clicking on VS icon and selecting Run As Administrator, possibly your user account has problems updating the .proj file.

Don

[former_member11696]

Hi Andrew,

Are you loading your projects from Team Foundation, or whatever MS calls it now? Only time I've heard of this happening, but we fixed that back in SP 1 for VS 2010.

Don

[former_member587476]

No, we are migrating to a new code repository, but that hasn't been done yet.