[RESOLVED] Visual Studio .NET 2003 & Crystal Reports

[stewarts]

Hi...I hope someone can point me in the right direction here. I have a Windows application developed in Visual Studio .NET 2003. The app has reports that were developed in Crystal Reports. Last month everything was working just fine. Now, suddenly and inexplicably, all the references for Crystal Reports (CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine, CrystalDecisions.ReportSource, CrystalDecisiions.Shared, crystaldecisions.windows.forms) are broken (they have a yellow triange with an exclamation point on them in the solution explorer) and all the imports in the report.vb file have errors (namespace cannot be found). I tried removing one of the references so that I could re-add it, but there are no crystal report/decision options to choose on the .net tab of the Add Reference window. Also, if I try to add a new item, there is no Crystal Report item in the list of templates in the Add New Item window. It's as if all the Crystal Report stuff is gone. I think Crystal Reports is supposed to be imbedded in Visual Studio .NET 2003, so don't know if I need to install Crystal Reports software or what? I hope someone can help me out as I have wasted way too much time trying to figure out what went wrong. Thank you very much in advance!!!

Sue

[jmcilhinney]

Sounds like you need to re-run setup to repair/reinstall the Crystal components.