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Help installing VS .NET 2005 Crystal Reports on web server

Zones: Visual Studio .NET 2005, Crystal Reports Software, .Net Editors & IDEs

Tags: Business Objects / SAP, Crystal Reports, 10, Installed with VS .NET 2005

Can someone please help short circuit the learning curve on setting up Crystal Reports on a web server. I don't have the time to become an expert at this time, my application is already deployed and I found out I need one real report.

Note I haven't used Crystal Reports in 15 years. I created a report using Crystal Reports that comes with VS .NET 2005 Professional. I understand I can't deploy that report without first installing the Crystal Reports libraries to the server. My web application is hosted and the vendor doesn't support Crystal Reports so my Sys Admin created a Virtual Machine I can use as a web server which will connect to my data source on my hosted application.

I have the web server installed, .NET 2.0 installed and working, and now I need to get Crystal going. I'm not deploying the entire application, just one RPT and the ASPX page that launches it. Does it need to be in an application all by itself since the entire application isn't being deployed there?

Business Objects told me what to download and said it was free, but the documentation says I'll need a license key which I don't have. So I don't even know if what I have is the right thing. Near as I can tell I'm using Crystal Reports 10.

Aren't there just a set of DLLs I can copy to the server? I'm so confused with what seems like 10 options all involving creating an installer, merge files, MSIs MSMs, LMNOPs, etc. Why is this so bloody confusing?????

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Zone: Programming

Question Asked By: dtburdick

Solution Provided By: dtburdick

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