Problems Migrating from VS 2003 and CR 2008 to VS 2008

[Former Member]

I am in process of upgrading from VS 2003 to VS 2008. At same time u2013 moving from Windows Xp to Windows 7. I was using CR 2008 on the XP and also installed it on Win 7. Now seems I have no support or SDK for VS 2008. Even if I add a new Cr object u2013 the screen us blank.

Any and all assistance would be greatly appreciated.

What do I need to do to get this to work u2013 and be able to safely distribute the resulting project?

Would upgrading to SAP CR 2011 work coupled with downloading the SDK for VS 2010? Or Reinstalling VS 2008?

Thank you

JimH

[former_member11696 · Accepted solution]

Hi Jim,

CR for VS 2010 will not work in VS 2008 and CR 2011 does not have an SDK install.

If you have Installed CR 2008 before VS 2008 it won't be integrated into VS. Do a repair install of VS 2008 and that should fix VS, assuming CR 2008 is installed and it's not a CR 2008 Basic, must be higher to get the SDK to install and work. Go into Add/Remove Programs and select CR 2008 and change, use the Custom Option and you should see the option to add .NET. Sorry I don't recall the exact wordage, it's been a while since I installed it.

And be sure to get the latest Service Packs for VS and CR 2008 SP 4. You can get them form the [download page|https://websmp230.sap-ag.de/sap%28bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==%29/bc/bsp/spn/bobj_download/main.htm]

Then check your references, they should be 12.x.x.xxxx and remove the 9.x from your project first if they are there still also. VS usually asks if you want to upgrade so I suspect a repair on CR and then possibly a repair in VS 2008 should fix the problem.

Download page also has the Redist Packages to deploy your app and CR runtime also.

Don

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Don,

Thank you for your reply. Your help is greatly appreciated.

I will be applying the fixes you mentioned hopefully this morning and will post the results.

God Bless and have a great day.

Jim

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Don,

When I click the "download page" link for the updates - I get a "403 Access Denied" error.

[former_member11696 · Accepted solution]

try this link:

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Don,

Thank you for all your help. I greatly appreciate it.

Doing the Repair of Net or CR2008 did not help. It was not until I persisted and tried (and failed) to install SP4 as you suggested that I got to the final solution. As you are no doubt aware - SP4 wont install unless you are current. With the install error message - I stumbled across this thread - were you helped someone else

So I uninstalled CR2008 (SP0 or earlier) - also uninstalled CR 10 Basic for VS Net - then installed the full build of SP3. That worked but loaded very very slow. Loaded SP4 - and seems much better.

Once again - thank you

Jim H

[former_member11696 · Accepted solution]

Great you have it working.

Next time, please search, you will find 99.9 % of the answers already posted. If it is something new then please post...

Don