Guidance needed with Visual Installer & Crystal Reports

[Pozzi]

Hi,

I've created an application which uses Crystal Reports to view reports using the Crystal ActiveX Report Viewer Library 11.0.

The reports have been designed in Crystal and my application populates the reports via Views from my database plus any additional criterias set by the user at run time.

I want to deploy my applcation onto another PC, and have tried using Visual Installer to create the installation package.

My first question is should I use an 'Empty Installer' or 'Visual Basic Installer' when creating a new project?

I've tried the Empty Installer and added my VB Project, on doing so the following appear in the task window: -

One or more files in MSVBVM60.MSM have different versions than those installed on this machine.
One or more files in MDAC.MSM have different versions than those installed on this machine.
One or more files in MSCOMCT2.MSM have different versions than those installed on this machine.

What does this mean, and how should it be fixed?

If I look at the 'File System' under 'Target Machine', my 3 tasks becomes 42! This is some of what is listed: -

The property 'SourceFile' of file 'crdb_ado.dll' is invalid.
The property 'SourceFile' of file 'crdb_dao.dll' is invalid.
The property 'SourceFile' of file 'crdb_odbc.dll' is invalid.

And this goes on and on...

I've tried adding the Crystal Merge Modules, but this doesn't remove the entries in the task list, it actually adds some more.

Coming to the point, could someone guide me on how to package my project to enable me to deploy it?

Anyones, and everyones help would be much appreciated.

Regards

[Hack]

I'm not familiar with Visual Installer.

Have you tried using the Package and Deployment Wizard?

[TNaran]

Hi,

I've created an application which uses Crystal Reports to view reports using the Crystal ActiveX Report Viewer Library 11.0.

The property 'SourceFile' of file 'crdb_ado.dll' is invalid.
The property 'SourceFile' of file 'crdb_dao.dll' is invalid.
The property 'SourceFile' of file 'crdb_odbc.dll' is invalid.

Regards

Right-click on your project in the Project Explorer and bring up the Properties for the project. Go to the Merge Module Search Path and point it to the directory where the Crystal MSM files are. Now delete and re-add your VB project. Installer will now find the DLLs in the Crystal MSMs.