I have an application with Crystal Reports in it. It has issues where it doesn't run on some computers. I haven't had this issue in a while so i tried to install all i remembered i needed.
First i made a simple console application that has an empty Crystal Report and all it does is instantiate the report and export to PDF right beside the EXE. Like that it's much faster to test. I put a try catch and wrote to a text file the stack trace of the error so i can debug quickly.
Ran it on my computer it works fine. Copied it onto a computer that it didn't work and tried it and it failed finding resources. I tried with 13_0_15 which is that i develop with and it doesn't work. So i installed the latest Crystal Runtime which is 13_0_22 64 bits.
Ran it again got the error :
Method not found: 'CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.DataDefModel.PropertyBag CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ReportDefModel.ISCRExportOptions.get_ExportOptionsEx()'
Then i remembered that Crystal Report cannot run on Any CPU and that you have to specify one platform. Recompiled my Console project as x64 and now i am stuck with the following error :
The document has not been opened. at CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ClientDoc.ReportClientDocumentClass.set_ReportAppServer(String pbsVal)
Now I made sure the computer has .net 3.5, .net 4.7 and Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 (as i know it's a requirement for Crystal).
Anything else i could be missing that i need to install ?
I already reinstalled the Crystal runtimes thinking it might be it but it's still not working.
Here's the code i use in case someone doesn't know what i mean by simple crystal report code :
using CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine;
using CrystalDecisions.Shared;
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
namespace ConsoleApplication1678
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
try
{
var report =newCrystalReport1();
if(File.Exists("rpt.pdf"))
{
File.Delete("rpt.pdf");
}
report.ExportToDisk(ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat,"rpt.pdf");
Process.Start("rpt.pdf");
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
var error = ex.Message+"\n\n"+ ex.StackTrace;
File.WriteAllText("error.txt", error);
}
}
}
}
Edit :
Created a brand new project very similar to the one above. The only difference is that i added a datasource to the report and added couple fields. On my PC it works perfectly. On any non developper PC it doesn't work and it still get the error :
Method not found: 'CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.DataDefModel.PropertyBag CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ReportDefModel.ISCRExportOptions.get_ExportOptionsEx()'
Now i have installed VC++Redist 2015 on all the PC and it still doesn't work. Then i noticed i was on Any CPU, I switched to x86 and tried but the error is still there. Then i rebuilded with x64 and it suddenly works. The PC that it doesn't work all have x86 and x64 of both Crystal Report and VC++Redist why is that ? is Crystal Report not available as 32bits anymore ? That's a huge issue as i have 4 third party DLL that do not work if my applications are anything else than x86
Edit :
here are 2 image for the dll used in both mode
this is 32 bits :
And this is 64 bits :
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Accepted Solutions (1)
Answers (6)
Try this,
Create a new VS C# project.
From the Project directory select "Reporting" and Crystal Reports Application:
Report Wizard comes up and just click Finished.
Run the app, does that work?
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