I just made the move to Visual Studio 2010 from 2008 and I guess I didn't do enough research before I moved. I seem to have gotten myself in quite a bind.
I knew Crystal Reports was no longer a part of 2010 but the beta was downloadable. I followed this document for deployment. My only change to this document is on the bindingRedirect element I changed the newVersion attribute value to 10.5.3700.0 because that is what is in the GAC and what was in the manifest of my 2008 project.
Unfortunately this is not working. Whenever I try to run a crystal report I get the exception :
An error has occured while attempting to load the Crystal Reports runtime.
Either the Crystal Reports registery key permissions are insufficient or the Crystal Reports runtime is not installed correctly.
At this point I think I am going to have to roll back and go back to VS 2008 until SAP comes out with a runtime. I can't believe there is not a work around for this as it will break so many projects that have Crystal Reports included in them.
Has anyone been able to work around this? If so, how?
Download the required package from here, install it and it will work,
Crystal Report Runtimes
Edit:
Original link no longer working. Here is this other one (http://www.businessobjects.com/jump/xi/crvs2010/us2_default.asp) from this SO answer
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We have recently upgraded to windows 7 and have noticed that there are compatibility issues with my previous version of MS visual Studio 2005.
From taking a look around the web I believe that this issue is due to SP1 for Windows 7. My organisation will not get rid of SP1 just for one or two developers so I need to figure out a work around.
This is the issue...
I have an old MS visual studio website that has a report located on the home. This report was created in MS VS 2005.
Other versions of Visual Studio in have are 2010 and 2012. I have tried to convert the 2005 report into 2010 and this does state that it has been converted but I still cant open or do anything with the report. My 2005 web site is too large to convert or move into 2010 and we can still maintain this 2005 site by opening this up in 2010. It just seems to be a problem with the 2005 report.
I'm running out of options to make a simple change to a report. Anyone else got any ideas? I have even tried to create this report in 2010 and then add this to my 2005 site but this doesn't work.
Regards
Betty.
You say a report and then say that it is a whole site? Why not run a second site in tandom? Make a whole new site and name it differently like
http:// (servername)/Reports2012
Then put reports there. You cannot open a converted report in a site that is for a prior version, you can view it in Microsoft Business Intelligence Studio, BIDS, which is an add on to Visual Studio. If you can upgrade but cannot view it there, there is something wrong with the language file potentially. I would then make a copy of it in the old 2005 BIDS, then take that copy and see if you can upgrade that and if it will work. If that STILL does not work you could make a test report in BIDS 2010(SQL 2012 works on VS 2010, yes weird but true) to assure you can create reports there. Many times people try to open SQL Server 2012 Reports on VS 2012 and it won't work. You need 2010 add on you can find it under All Programs>MS SQL Server 2012>SQL Server Data Tools(They made the naming very confusing as it opens up and display BIDS, but calls itself 'Data Tools' under the programs). Every other version of SSRS lines up with that year of SQL Server to that year of VS. Not 2012.
If the report upgrade still does not work, yet you can create a run a new report fine; I would suggest potentially opening up the file dircectly. Your projects in a Reports solution generally have a file '(something).rdl' that RDL is the actual file and is just XML markup of the language. This is a last resort as you are essentially trying to do manually what the upgrade is failing to do in the xml. You merely copy a working report, and then paste the parts of the old report into their correct sections. Ensure the XML is valid as well.
If you cannot manage that to work you will need to recreate the report from scratch.
I have some issues with my reports since I have updated them to VS2010 format.
Even though I have modified references to from v9 to 10 for Microsoft.ReportViwer.Common and Microsoft.ReportViewer.WinForms as well, when I try to type code. in a field, what is after "Code." is always underlined with red and I get #ERROR instead of the value I want when I print the report. I know it is case sensitive and I double checked the spelling multiple times.
Moreover, I don't know why but I have errors with the Fields! syntax; I seem to have to use the Fields().value to get them to work (at the places I don't need to call custom code too)
These reports worked well before conversion (over 20 reports converted this way) but do not now. Seems like custom functions are not "seen" by the report designer. I tryed to make them public, shared; all I had is the same stupid #ERROR display.
I want them to work in VS2010 to avoid always having to modify them in VS2008 and then go back in VS2010
It's a winform application with framework 3.5
Any idea of what could cause that and what is the remedy?
Many thanks
Nico
There are a couple of ways to use custom code in SSRS. Firstly you can enter VB directly into the window under
Report -- >Report Properties --> Code
Another way is to write a custom DLL (which can be done in any .NET language of course), which then needs to be copied to both your dev machine and the production report server.
You then need to create references to that assembly in the project using:
Report --> Report Properties --> References (I assume you know this).
If you are not using your own custom assembly, and just using a reference to one on your machine then there could be some confusion on the server as to where to find the dll's. You may need to copy DLL's to the folder as indicated in the KB link below:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920769
When you drag a field onto a tablix or textbox, and have a look at the value expression, does it use the Fields!Fieldname.Value syntax? That syntax is natural to SSRS so it sounds like something seriously broken in your visual studio 2010 there if that is not working. I take it you installed visual studio 2010 to create web applications. What you haven't explained is which version of BIDS or SSDT you are using. If you are developing reports for SSRS 2008 R2 or earlier, then these are not compatible with visual studio 2010. There's no compromise there.
If you are developing for SSRS 2012, then you are using either SSDT by itself (which installs a shell version of visual studio 2010) OR if you already have visual studio 2010 then you need to install service pack 1 for VS2010 and then install SSDT from the SQL Server 2012 disc.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh500335(v=vs.103).aspx
My problem seems similar, but the situation is different. I'm using Windows Server 2003 64 Bit with Visual Studio 2010, Crystal Report 13.02.456 Runtime (64 Bit) for framework 4.0 and Crystal reports version for Visual studio 2010.
The report works perfectly in debug mode.
1.But when it is deployed on IIS at first it started giving jscript 'bobj' missing error.
2.Later I searched the internet and copied crystalreportviewer13 folder from IIS folder to my application root folder.
3.The error changed to 'Unsupported Operation. A document processed by the JRC engine cannot be opened in the C++ stack.'
Any help would be great, as i am unable to find any solution yet.
This problem can be caused by the path being incorrect when loading the rpt file. Could probably be other things too, but certainly that's one thing to check first.
See forum posts here, here and here
I've recently updated a project's Crystal Reports documents to the latest version (CR2008), these are the regular reports built into Visual Studio 2010 after installing Crystal Reports free version.
Having updated the reports, they wouldn't ask for parameters within a Windows Forms application. I managed to solve this by simply adding the parameter to the report so it was displayed (I assume this somehow refreshed the fact that there was a parameter available!).
However, the viewer now asks for the parameter but appears to ignore it when the report actually loads.
Has anyone got any ideas? I don't really want to have to make a parameter GUI for every single report and then pass them all through!
Thanks in advance.
Replacing the viewer control with the updated one appears to have solved the problem, even though they were both reading from the same reference!
On a legacy product I successfully migrated to VS2010 about a month ago: When I open it today and try to launch the Crystal Reports editor I get an error "Invalid Keycode" and a blank editor screen.
VS2010
Windows 7, 64b
Most advice is pointing me towards "Reinstall VS2010" - but I've also found a few forum posts indicating a keycode fix or registry edit. I've tried a few of these, but I still get the error.
You've got to uninstall "Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 - Beta x" and install the release version which can be downloaded from: http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_13_0.exe.
The beta expired on 12/31/2010
Acording with SENC4ME said, You can try to change the date of your system, change it to Nov/01/2010. I had the same problem y when I changed the date the problem was fixed.
Crystal Reports is no longer included with VS2010. I suspect that might have something to do with it. Here's a blog post from the company that owns it now that tells you why you should be happy about that. I don't understand much of it, but then again I also don't understand why companies like SAP are still in business.
Reinstalling / repairing Visual Studio is the only thing that helped me.
I have suffered from this issue for the last 2 days.
I think this issue occurred before installing Visual studio 2008. I originally installed Visual studio 2010 and Crystal report V13.
Make a back up copy of registry files of business objects by right clicking on the business object, then select export and then execute the registry file to your target machine.
If your OS installed into different directory then you have to make change the path and the common directory.
See screen shot for more help:
Reinstalling Crystal Reports 13.0.18 works for me, but I have to do it after any session in VS2010 where I touch the reports. Next time I try it I get the Invalid Keycode msgbox. This is mildly irritating to say the least.