What are the possible issues with running two version of the runtime.

[former_member297065]

Greetings

We currently discovered that that our test and prod environments are not running the same version of the runtime.

Prod has 13.0.12.1494

and test has 13.0.22.2668

Our concern is with such a big difference in the version, what possible issue could we have going from

13.0.12 to 13,22. of even 13.0.24

and how does this all work with the Visual Studio which is at 13.0.3500.0.

Any thoughts?

[DellSC]

You can have lots of problems with this kind of a version mismatch. You need to have the same version of the runtime as was used when the application was compiled in order to make sure version mismatch issues don't occur.

-Dell

[former_member297065]

Dell

Thanks for the quick response. Should we do an upgrade from 13.0.12 to 13.0.22? I realize all upgrades have the potential to cause issues. I guess I am just looking for piece of mind.

What about the VS CR engine? Are you aware of any version matching? Or is the recommendation is always be at the latest version?

Sincerely

Ray

[DellSC]

It depends on which version of the SDK was used with VS when developing/deploying the application. Whatever runtime you use must match that version. See https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Crystal+Reports%2C+Developer+for+Visual+Studio+Downloads for information about the current version, what's different since the earlier version, links to download, etc. Also, you can't use the assembly version (13.0.whatever) to determine what you have installed because that doesn't always change with each service pack. Instead, go to Control Panel >> Programs and Features to determine which service pack you have installed on the computer where VS is. If you don't upgrade to SP24 (the latest), this is the version of the runtime that needs to be installed. The wiki page above explains how to get the download for earlier versions of the runtime.

-Dell