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Crystal Enterprise & asp.net Depolyment Problems.

Asked by: matchbx27

I can't deploy my ASP.NET Application to the web server / CE Server.

I receive the following error message:

Parser Error Message: File or assembly name CrystalDecisions.ReportSource, or one of its dependencies, was not found.

This error occurs in my web.config file.

Here's my setup

I have a WIN2K server that serves as both my web server (IIS 5.0) and the Crystal Enterprise Server.  Crystal Enterprise 9 RAS Standard Edition is installed (this is the version that came with Crystal Reports Advanced).

My development machine is win2k with VS.NET 2003, IIS 5.0, Crystal Reports Advanced Edition.

I have developed an asp.net app (with vb.net) on my development machine and everything works fine.  The reports are retrieved from the Web / CE Server and are displayed on my machine.   It even works from another computer.

The following assemblies are in my web.config file:

<compilation defaultLanguage="vb" debug="true">
<assemblies>

<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine, Version= 9.2.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"/>
                  
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.ReportSource, Version=9.2.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"/>
                  
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Shared, Version=9.2.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"/>
                  
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.Web, Version=9.2.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"/>
                  
<add assembly="CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ClientDoc, Version =9.2.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"/>

</assemblies>
</compilation>


On my development machine all CE DLL's are located in c:\program files\common files\Crystal Decisions\2.0\managed\

On my web server I do not have a managed folder.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Answers

 

by: EwaldLPosted on 2004-03-04 at 11:57:09ID: 10517119

try installing this on the target machine
http://support.businessobjects.com/communityCS/FilesAndUpdates/cr9netredist.zip.asp

then install the ce ras

 

by: matchbx27Posted on 2004-03-04 at 14:07:24ID: 10518298

I installed the CR9 redist and that solved some of my problems.  Can I simply repair the CE RAS Installation or should I uninstall / reinstall CE RAS.

 

by: EwaldLPosted on 2004-03-04 at 15:05:58ID: 10518675

you would need both the redist and ce ras. ce ras provides the actual functionality (the webservice) and the redist installs the assemblies you need for your application.

 

by: matchbx27Posted on 2004-03-05 at 04:46:11ID: 10521964

CE 9.0 Standard Edition was installed prior to installing CR9 Redist.  Is CE9.0 Standard Edition different from CE RAS?

The home pages will now load (this is where I login to CE and create the initial CE Session) however when I attempt to open one of the report pages I receive the following error message:

Could not load type CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ClientDoc.ReportAppFactory from assembly CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ClientDoc, Version=9.2.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=xxxxxxxxxxxxx.

Now the CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ClientDoc.dll does exist on the server.  It is located at c:\Program Files\Common Files\Crystal Decisions\2.0\Managed.

 

by: EwaldLPosted on 2004-03-08 at 11:58:35ID: 10543561

ce ras is a cut down of ce. so i guess you got three cd with cr 9?
- cr 9
- ce ras
- ce

ce ras and ce both install a a different report application server service. if the assembly is called crystaldecisions.reportappserver i would assume it needs the ce ras. try installing this on the target. not too sure though, it's a bit confusing with the different services...

 

by: matchbx27Posted on 2004-03-08 at 12:05:54ID: 10543616

It looks as though the CE part is working fine (once I installed the CR9 Redist).  I can login to CE but when I try to load a report it blows up.

Could not load type CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ClientDoc.ReportAppFactory from assembly CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ClientDoc

To make sure I had the same version dll on both machines I did uninstall CR9 Redist and Install the web setup wizard (including the Merge Modules).

 

by: matchbx27Posted on 2004-03-09 at 11:01:59ID: 10553290

SOLUTION--At least a work-a-round until I can get a reply from Business Objects.

The application uses a ReportAppFactory object from the CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ClientDoc.dll

The variable is declared as a Page Global Variable.  This is the object that cannot be loaded.

This Page Global Variable is declared as a ReportAppFactory Object was changed to type "OBJECT".  Just plain Jane vanilla OBJECT.

Now Everything works.


One other thing:

The Crystal Enterprise objects did not exist in the Managed folder (c:\program files\common files\crystal decisions\2.0\managed).   I attempted to repair the CE installation several times to no avail (Modify was not an option).   Finally I uninstalled CE 9 and reinstalled CE 9.  I must have installed CE 9 before installing the .net framework.  After that all of the CE dll's showed up in the managed folder, however, the web app still did not work.  If I had tried the solution above before uninstalling / reinstalling I'm sure I would have run into problems.


Also for any one who has to uninstall and reinstall CE 9.0:

Backup your SQL Server Database before uninstalling  and restore it after installing.  I did zip up all of the .rpt files located on the server just in case however the uninstall did not delete any of the reports that created and stored within CE.  Once I restored the database everything work exactly as it did before.

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