Crystal Reports Deployment

[VB4fun]

I have posted this as a new thread, cause the other was sooooo long...

I said I would, and I meant it.

Attached is an outline of how to accomplish, along with setup script, for assistance in deploying an application which exports a Crystal Reports .rpt, to a .pdf format....for printing.

Thanks goes out to Ken Bradford, for all his assistance and PATIENCE.... (you have no idea how much I appreciate your dedication!) and ARPrince (for causing me to dig in my heels and not give up in the beginning)

Hope this helps someone out there.

(and yes, my app is deployable with CR9 reports!)

[ARPRINCE]

This would come in handy sonner or later. Cheers!!

[VB4fun]

**bump**

[VB4fun]

I believe this fixes any issues which might arise from XP...

if someone has a problem, let me know...and I will look into it more...

[lfwolf]

I install my setup application (uesd RDC9.0 ) in windows xp,
BUT The program has no response when register craxdrt9.dll
and the same when i register craxdrt9.dll by regsvr32.exe
I want to know whether i can register craxdrt9.dll in windows xp

[SkiNLaB]

what the hell is instcow.exe

i get ONE result on google!?

I think you mean unicows.exe ??? why the name change?

[SkiNLaB]

I believe this fixes any issues which might arise from XP...

if someone has a problem, let me know...and I will look into it more...

what complications were they??

[RobDog888]

To deploy a successful VB/CR application, one would benefit from using the
Runtime.hlp file that list out what dlls/ocx's are required for each
method/function in CR. It is included in the developer version of CR.

HTH

[SkiNLaB]

Thanks, I've had a read and hunted down all the dll's I needed to.

From my understanding, some dlls need to be registered, and others don't? because they are just like a support library for the DLL that NEEDS to be registered .. (or something)

My QUestion is, how do i know which dlls to tell INNO to register???

Thanks,

[SkiNLaB]

Damnit


"Can I simply copy the files over to have my application work?
No. Some files are registrable files. This means that they export a function called DLLRegisterServer that has code to make required registry entries for the file. The only Crystal Reports files that need to be registered are craxdrt9.dll, craxddrt9.dll, crviewer9.dll, CRDesignerCtrl.DLL, and cdo32.dll. However, keep in mind that some of the dependencies of these files might need to be registered. The installation setup tool should take care of that for you.

"

rats

[SkiNLaB]

through simple trial and error these are dlls that i have found to be registerable, if u try and simply register them all, winXP machines will not be happy

CRAnalyzer.dll
craxdrt9.dll
crqe.dll
crtslv.dll
crviewer9.dll
exportmodeller.dll
keycode.dll

Note: I'm not including all optional crystal componetns, such as exporting to html etc, you may need to register those if your including them in your deployment.