Crystal Report Deployment Comaprison

Post Author: cp_pramodu
CA Forum: Crystal Reports
Dear All,
In my organization, we have an application for generating Adhoc reports from my back end system. My back-end DB is sybase.
In this application for we are using Crystal report for generating these reports. We have nearly 10 branches and 2 HO. All most all these users uses this application for generating reports. Reports are not embadded in the application, all RPT files are kept in a shared directory in a central server.
We have installed this Windows application in all the PCs, when user access this report we are loading this report from the shared path.
Now, we have a plan to with Web mode. Is it worth going with web mode?
Can any one tell me about the advantages and disadvantages of web mode over this Windows based application.
Thanks in advance.
Pramodu. C. P

Ok.
1) Make sure you are using the full framework 4.0, not the client framework
2) Make sure you are using CR VS2010 SP 2:
http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_13_0_2.exe
3) Take a look at the following:
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/elearn?rid=/library/uuid/4053ee51-162a-2d10-b8b0-fdd7a26d5cd2
http://thedatafarm.com/blog/data-access/crystal-reports-and-visual-studio-2010/
4) Download the developer help files:
SAP Crystal Reports .NET API Guide http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/sapCRVS2010/en/crnet_api_2010_en.zip
SAP Crystal Reports .NET SDK Developer Guide http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/sapCRVS2010/en/crnet_dg_2010_en.zip
5) Since you are using ADO .NET datasets, see kb [1525432 - Could not load file or assembly 'file:///<Path>crdb_adoplus.dll' or one of its dependencies|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/oss_notes_boj/sdn_oss_boj_bi/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/scn_bosap/notes%7B6163636573733d36393736354636443646363436353344333933393338323636393736354637333631373036453646373436353733354636453735364436323635373233443330333033303331333533323335333433333332%7D.do]
Finally, a small recommendation; find a saved data report, create a new app (win or web), throw a CR viewer on the form and the following code (on page load or page init);
CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = <path to your saved data report>. That should give you your 1st success - work form there.
Oh, and make sure your dataset is not over a couple of thousand rows. Otherwise, you will m ore than likely run into memory issues.
- Ludek
Edited by: Ludek Uher on Jan 30, 2012 8:27 AM

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Ok.
1) Make sure you are using the full framework 4.0, not the client framework
2) Make sure you are using CR VS2010 SP 2:
http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_13_0_2.exe
3) Take a look at the following:
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/elearn?rid=/library/uuid/4053ee51-162a-2d10-b8b0-fdd7a26d5cd2
http://thedatafarm.com/blog/data-access/crystal-reports-and-visual-studio-2010/
4) Download the developer help files:
SAP Crystal Reports .NET API Guide http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/sapCRVS2010/en/crnet_api_2010_en.zip
SAP Crystal Reports .NET SDK Developer Guide http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/sapCRVS2010/en/crnet_dg_2010_en.zip
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- Ludek
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Post Author: figue
CA Forum: .NET
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Edited by: mtech8 on Jan 9, 2010 3:03 PM. Corrected formatting issues to make post readable.

HI. Ludek,
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2) Since I was getting a registration suggestion window for using Crystal Reports, I registered twice using different email address and it said that it will send me the KeyCode for the Crystal report but after successful registration I never got any keycode but just an email acknowledging the Registration.
I believe the KeyCode is required to use it in the server to execute/run a report.
Can SAP representative email the keycode to my gmail account?
My product key is:
Please help to resolve both my problems
Thanks in advance,
Sanjay Chudasama

If I memory servers, you have to open the Crystal_Regwiz2003.msm in the .NET deployment project. One of the properties of the msm was Keycode (or similar). You entered the keycode here. To find your keycode; in VS2003 IDE, go to the Help | About screen. You will see one of the installed components as Crystal Reports and the keycode will be on the right of that. Copy the keycode from here, paste in the above.
For more details see the article Crystal Reports and Visual Studio .NET - Application Deployment.
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