CR4VS2010 - BusinessObjects.Licensing.KeycodeDecoder.dll, cannot be loaded

Question

Hi there,
I am trying to use the Production Release of CR4VS2010 as found here:
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 Production Release Now Available
Whenever I try to run a report I get the following exception:
Load report failed.
Unsupported Operation. A document processed by the JRC engine cannot be opened in the C++ stack.
at CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ReportClientDocumentWrapper.EnsureDocumentIsOpened()
   at CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument.Load(String filename, OpenReportMethod openMethod, Int16 parentJob)
   at CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument.Load(String filename)
If I try to use the Database Expert or Set the Database Location for a report VS2010 simply hangs.
If I look in the event log, I see a Crystal Reports error:
The description for Event ID ( 4353 ) in Source ( Crystal Reports ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: The keycode assembly, BusinessObjects.Licensing.KeycodeDecoder.dll, cannot be loaded.
If I perform Code Analysis on my solution, I get this warning:
Warning     4     CA0060 : The indirectly-referenced assembly 'BusinessObjects.Licensing.KeycodeDecoder, Version=13.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304' could not be found. This assembly is not required for analysis, however, analysis results could be incomplete. This assembly was referenced by: C:Program FilesSAP BusinessObjectsCrystal Reports for .NET Framework 4.0CommonSAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0win32_x86dotnetCrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.dll.
My environment is:
Windows XP SP3
VS2010 Ultimate
I have other versions of CR installed
I am targetting Framework 3.5 SP1 (Full)
I have seen similar errors published with the Beta version and no real solution to them.
I have to have side by side versions of VS and CR together.
I am developing internal apps which will be deployed on servers where there will be side by side versions of VS
Can anyone help please???
Thanks,
James

Answer 1

Hi Ludek,
We're getting there... taking your suggestion about using the samples... they worked fine.
So I started digging deeper... I'm using code such as...
using (var report = new ReportDocument())
    report.Load(filename);
I need to do this because even though I have a "correctly designed" report when developing, the business might need to alter the layout at a later date. So I need to pick up whatever is on disk at the time.
So I look in a subfolder of the deployed project for the .rpt file.
And here's where things were going wrong at runtime...
There was a SILLY bug in my code such that I wasn't picking up the correct folder... i.e. File.Exists(filename) == false
So here is some sample code that demonstrates the problem:
namespace MisleadingExceptionConsoleApp
    class Program
        static void Main(string[] args)
            using (var report = new CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument())
                report.Load(@"c:\temp\a_report_that_does_not_exist.rpt");
When you run this, you get:
-          ex     {"Load report failed."}     System.Exception {CrystalDecisions.Shared.CrystalReportsException}
+          [CrystalDecisions.Shared.CrystalReportsException]     {"Load report failed."}     CrystalDecisions.Shared.CrystalReportsException
+          Data     {System.Collections.ListDictionaryInternal}     System.Collections.IDictionary {System.Collections.ListDictionaryInternal}
          HelpLink     null     string
-          InnerException     {"Unsupported Operation. A document processed by the JRC engine cannot be opened in the C++ stack."}     System.Exception {System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException}
+          [System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException]     {"Unsupported Operation. A document processed by the JRC engine cannot be opened in the C++ stack."}     System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException
+          Data     {System.Collections.ListDictionaryInternal}     System.Collections.IDictionary {System.Collections.ListDictionaryInternal}
          HelpLink     null     string
+          InnerException     null     System.Exception
          Message     "Unsupported Operation. A document processed by the JRC engine cannot be opened in the C++ stack."     string
          Source     "clientdoc.dll"     string
          StackTrace     "   at CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ClientDoc.ReportClientDocumentClass.Open(Object& DocumentPath, Int32 Options)\r\n   at CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ReportClientDocumentWrapper.Open(Object& DocumentPath, Int32 Options)\r\n   at CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ReportClientDocumentWrapper.EnsureDocumentIsOpened()"     string
+          TargetSite     {Void Open(System.Object ByRef, Int32)}     System.Reflection.MethodBase {System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo}
+          Static members          
+          Non-Public members          
          Message     "Load report failed."     string
          Source     "CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine"     string
          StackTrace     "   at CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ReportClientDocumentWrapper.EnsureDocumentIsOpened()\r\n   at CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument.Load(String filename, OpenReportMethod openMethod, Int16 parentJob)\r\n   at CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument.Load(String filename)\r\n   at MisleadingExceptionConsoleApp.Program.Main(String[] args) in g:
Projects
MisleadingExceptionConsoleApp
MisleadingExceptionConsoleApp
Program.cs:line 18"     string
+          TargetSite     {Void EnsureDocumentIsOpened()}     System.Reflection.MethodBase {System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo}
+          Static members          
+          Non-Public members          
So to my mind, the InnerException here ("Unsupported Operation. A document processed by the JRC engine cannot be opened in the C++ stack.") is wrong and incredibly misleading!!! :O)
So that answers my runtime issue.
I still cannot open the Database Expert at design time... however, that is not a pressing issue for me right now.
But if you do have any ideas on how to determine the root cause I'd like to get that sorted too.
Many thanks,
James