Lookin for experienced help, vb+crystal xi

Hello,
I have a rather large VB application that calls alot of reports to be viewed through the CR veiwer control. When I go to package with P&DW, it tells me to locate 3 .dlls, which ofcourse aren't on my PC or anywhere to be found. I have looked up all the documentation on the business objects website and it all points to using MSI and to download thier RDC merge modules. I guess I am having a hard time with thier documentation and I have no experience using MSI.

On page 7 of thier documentation, step 1 says "After adding the Microsoft merge modules". Am I supposed to know what exactly these are?

Is there anyone out there that has a good knowledge of packaging vb+crystal? There really isn't very much documentation/help for beginners....

thanks for any help provided.

The merge modules will not help in PDW. With PDW it uses .dep files which are out of date and ask for files that do not exist and never have since really early version of CR.

Please read Installation Problem in my signature for more help on this matter.

I went and updated all of my runtime files via your link, and I also DL'd **********. ********** couldn't find 16 files needed for my package...

Source: msdbrptr.dll; DestDir: {sys}; Flags: regserver restartreplace sharedfile
Source: comct332.ocx; DestDir: {sys}; Flags: regserver restartreplace sharedfile
Source: msflxgrd.ocx; DestDir: {sys}; Flags: regserver restartreplace sharedfile
Source: threed32.ocx; DestDir: {sys}; Flags: regserver restartreplace sharedfile
Source: msdatgrd.ocx; DestDir: {sys}; Flags: regserver restartreplace sharedfile
Source: msmask32.ocx; DestDir: {sys}; Flags: regserver restartreplace sharedfile
Source: tabctl32.ocx; DestDir: {sys}; Flags: regserver restartreplace sharedfile
Source: mfc71u.dll; DestDir: {sys}; Flags: sharedfile
Source: u2fsepv.dll; DestDir: {sys}; Flags: sharedfile
Source: u2fxml.dll; DestDir: {sys}; Flags: sharedfile
Source: etc-1-0-12-3.dll; DestDir: {sys}; Flags: sharedfile
Source: ebus-3-3-2-4.dll; DestDir: {sys}; Flags: sharedfile
Source: libocahelperw-2-13.dll; DestDir: {sys}; Flags: sharedfile
Source: fssl-1-2-1-1.dll; DestDir: {sys}; Flags: sharedfile
Source: cxlibw-2-6.dll; DestDir: {sys}; Flags: sharedfile
Source: libocasecurityw-1-6.dll; DestDir: {sys}; Flags: sharedfile


Any idea what I am doing wrong?

The manual does state what to do about searching in SAFE / UNSAFE Modes.... and searching thru additional paths.

Ok I switched to Unsafe mode and still missing the same 2 .dlls

Source: u2fsepv.dll; DestDir: {sys}; Flags: sharedfile
Source: u2fxml.dll; DestDir: {sys}; Flags: sharedfile

The rest were found...

Did you place the crystal reports folder in the search area. And what does your log look like?

Where do you add the folder? I pasted in with the other paths but it disappears after I run it...

attached is my run log.

OK, Those files were picked up from a .dep file which could be out of date. Those files may not exist. You should be ok. Just remove them.

ok so I assumed I should be compiling the .iss in innosetup. Tho I am getting the unsafe file errors... am I supposed to comment those?

No, You are getting unsafe errors because you did not follow the suggestion of copying the files to another folder and verifing them. If you move them then rerun ********** to point to that location, Inno Setup will compile the script.

Got it packaged, ignored those 2 dll's and I get errors registering at that end of the installation...

What errors??????? It going to be hard if we have to guess...

Attached are SS's of the 2 errors.

Does the app work after installation? What version of CR are you using?

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Originally Posted by randem

Does the app work after installation? What version of CR are you using?

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The app works until I try to preview a report... I am using CR 11 Dev edition.

What error do you get when attempting to view the report? Are you using .rpt files or are the reports run on the fly (dynamically using SQL and ADO)?

What OS are you installing on? What OS did you develop on?

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Originally Posted by randem

What error do you get when attempting to view the report? Are you using .rpt files or are the reports run on the fly (dynamically using SQL and ADO)?

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I am not getting an error at runtime. It just looks blank where the preview control would normally be. All the selection SQL is in the reports(.rpt).

Developing on WinXP installing on WinXP/2000 machines.

I take it you included the .rpt files in your installation also?

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Originally Posted by randem

I take it you included the .rpt files in your installation also?

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Yes I did.

I can also get the program to run fine if I install crystal on the PC...

Are you using any part of CR the needs to be licensed? Post your script and log files.

Here is my script... what logs do you need?

THe run log from **********. ALso you did not attact anything.

Sorry about missing the attachment. I think I got the problem solved by using MSI and import the CRXI Merge Modules.

Thanks for all of your effort, I appreciate it.