Crystal Reports Assemblies

[mickey_pt]

Hello

I'm wondering if it's possible to check in the application start if the system has the correct assemblies installed to my application to work?

Let me explain, i have a application that uses several reports, and to solve the problem of the first time open report, I run in another thread a dummy report. This works fine if the user has the crystal reports installed but if it doesn't the app stops working.

So, there is anyway to check if the assemblies that crystal reports need are installed?

Thanks

[wes4dbt]

I usually just add the CR runtime for .Net Framework as a prerequisite and then run publish, it is installed when you run the setup.

[mickey_pt]

Me too, but when the use has the app installed i have an automatically updater that checks for new version, and if it found anything it just runs the msi package to update the application...
So when the app gets updated I can't check anything, only in the first run...


In the past i read somewhere in the web about some classes that could check for the assemblies but i can't find anything now...

Thanks

[mickey_pt]

Anyone?

Thanks