Failed to refresh reports

Question

Post Author: Ahmed Yakout
CA Forum: .NET
Hi all,i
developed a .net application with vs2005 embedded in it 2 crystal report viewers
for 2 crystal reports that get their data from an oracle DB,when running this
app and trying to refresh any report,i get the error msg :"Failed to
load database information. Details: The database DLL 'crdb_oracle.dll' could not be loaded"i checked this msg on nearly all forums tried the solutions but invain.oracle client is installed and configured to see the DB,the PATH variable is set to oracle client bin directory.what makes me really confused is that these reports run normally from within crystal reports and refresh without any errors.

Answer 1

Post Author: dml256
CA Forum: .NET
I don't think this DLL is related to the Oracle Client. Rather, i think you are missing a crystal reports reference. However, i did find this workaround on the Oracle forums. To add Grace Days in Payment terms
__________________________________________________________________________You might need something like this;using CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine;using CrystalDecisions.Shared;The way we've used Crystal Reports and asp.net is to populate a dataset with the data we need to display and then pass that to the reportReportDocument crReportDocument;crReportDocument = new ReportDocument();crReportDocument.Load(Request.PhysicalApplicationPath + "Combined.rpt", OpenReportMethod.OpenReportByTempCopy);crReportDocument.SetDataSource(ds);i.e we don't use any of the crystal data access stuff, just our normal odp.net.Perhaps you could consider this.