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Problem in Manually Deployment CR XI within Visual Basic 6 program
Hello, I have a problem as is described below.
We have written a program in visual basic 6. right now we have decided to add some reports by using crystal reports XI. we only use Crystal Report's ActiveX(also we have some charts) within our program and we do report design inside visual basic 6.
I have a virtual hard drive(Microsoft virtual PC) with a clean setup of microsoft windows XP into it. I use this Virtual PC to test resulted setup file to see wether my program works probably in client machine or not.
I did creat a setup file using install shield and added corresponding Merge modules to it and after installing resulted setup program worked perfect without any error.
However, for some reasons we DO need to install and register corresponding DLLs, dependecies and Registery keys manually.
In the very first moment, I tried to copy and register couple of files manually like (crviewer.dll,Craxddrt.dll
As a result, I tried to add more files to manually registering list.
Finally, I did my best to solve this problem. Being bored of searching dependecies for each DLL I decided to Add All of DLLs that I think they are related to Crystal Reports. So I manually copy and registered all of the files within the following sub directories:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Business Objects\3.0\bin
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Business Objects\3.0\crystalreportv
Plus all of extra DLL files in my C:\Windows\System32 folder which where added after I installed Merge Modules.
Also I extracted "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWA
I did all of these, So guess what was the result? I got that error again.
Right now, I dont have a clue about what I have to do.
Is there any way to find out all of required DLLs and Dependecies and Registery keys for My Program? I mean is there any scripts or lists so I can Do all of them manually in my program?
If you give me any suggestions about this problem I would appreciate you.
Best Regards,
Aidin
We have written a program in visual basic 6. right now we have decided to add some reports by using crystal reports XI. we only use Crystal Report's ActiveX(also we have some charts) within our program and we do report design inside visual basic 6.
I have a virtual hard drive(Microsoft virtual PC) with a clean setup of microsoft windows XP into it. I use this Virtual PC to test resulted setup file to see wether my program works probably in client machine or not.
I did creat a setup file using install shield and added corresponding Merge modules to it and after installing resulted setup program worked perfect without any error.
However, for some reasons we DO need to install and register corresponding DLLs, dependecies and Registery keys manually.
In the very first moment, I tried to copy and register couple of files manually like (crviewer.dll,Craxddrt.dll
As a result, I tried to add more files to manually registering list.
Finally, I did my best to solve this problem. Being bored of searching dependecies for each DLL I decided to Add All of DLLs that I think they are related to Crystal Reports. So I manually copy and registered all of the files within the following sub directories:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Business Objects\3.0\bin
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Business Objects\3.0\crystalreportv
Plus all of extra DLL files in my C:\Windows\System32 folder which where added after I installed Merge Modules.
Also I extracted "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWA
I did all of these, So guess what was the result? I got that error again.
Right now, I dont have a clue about what I have to do.
Is there any way to find out all of required DLLs and Dependecies and Registery keys for My Program? I mean is there any scripts or lists so I can Do all of them manually in my program?
If you give me any suggestions about this problem I would appreciate you.
Best Regards,
Aidin
ASKER
Thanks for consideration. I am familiar with merge modules and as I mentioned in the question I can do a seccessful setup with merge modules.
However, we want to do whole process Manually, without using the install or setup. My question is that if there is a way to know what happens during installation of merge modules, I mean:
1- what files would be copied and where?
2- what files would be registered?
3- what registery keys would be created and with what values?
Waiting to hear from you,
Best Regards,
AutoManager
However, we want to do whole process Manually, without using the install or setup. My question is that if there is a way to know what happens during installation of merge modules, I mean:
1- what files would be copied and where?
2- what files would be registered?
3- what registery keys would be created and with what values?
Waiting to hear from you,
Best Regards,
AutoManager
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I found that I have to use merge modules anyway thanks a lot for your help
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