Crystal Report 10 Deployment

[stm]

Hi,

My VB.NET application uses CR10 for reporting.
After I build the exe and copy it (as well as CrystalDecision.xxx.xxx.dlls) to another machine which don't have CR10 installed, it throws an exception about COMInterop, and a CLSID. According to that CLSID, I found the dll to be sacommlayer.dll.........is it necessary to build a setup package and can't just XCOPY for deployment? I just use simple report functions.

Thx~

[Hack]

Yes, it is necessary to build up a installation package. Controls need to be regisgtered with the operating system, and an installation package will both copy, and register, your controls for you.

[stm]

But not CR10 already support .NET? Why COM Interop is still necessary?
I just want to completely eliminate this stuff.

[Hack]

Yes, CR10 does support .NET, but the end user machine still has to have the necessary dependency files installed on it for everything to work with each other.