Error in file when trying to open a crystal report from a vb.net 2003 application
Greetings,
I have a customer who is using windowsxp and when they install the application on their machine, everything seems to work right up to the point when they ahve to generate a report. They get the message that says Error in File and nothing else. I don't have a screen shot on this, but I was wondering if anyone has ever encounter this before and what was the solution for it.
I have a customer who is using windowsxp and when they install the application on their machine, everything seems to work right up to the point when they ahve to generate a report. They get the message that says Error in File and nothing else. I don't have a screen shot on this, but I was wondering if anyone has ever encounter this before and what was the solution for it.
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Yes, saw all of those comments and some more as well. Apparently this has always worked and the user swears (and they are always right ;) ) they didn't change anything on the machine that would cause the machine to stop working. I have a feeling it is an update or they removed an application or some other unknown reason :)
I was hoping someone may have encountered such things and worked some magic to make it go away. :)
I was hoping someone may have encountered such things and worked some magic to make it go away. :)
Full stacktrace of error is useful to debug, if you can get it from the application :)
For quick response I will suggest you to reinstall the application. Maybe some missing components should be there again.
For quick response I will suggest you to reinstall the application. Maybe some missing components should be there again.
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tried the reinstallation and the user was still getting the same error. I don't have the source code for the application, at least not as easily available as one would like.
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got some new information from the client, the full error message
Error in file
<file location>
Page header or footer longer than a page
This time they gave me a screen shot.
Error in file
<file location>
Page header or footer longer than a page
This time they gave me a screen shot.
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Also, reduce size of each band, header footer detail etc., as small as possible.
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thanks.....got to love clients....:)
:)
- references DLLs & license number specify
- load RPT files & specify available database connection or implement RAS server on network
- passing parameters (which can be many sensitive types) & date locale problem
- unicode, no embeded font
If you google, you will see many people're facing these problems, especially passing parameters.
At the final, I ended up with another component, daReport which seem better to implementation in my project.