Blaine Roberts
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vb6 custom application calling crystal reports 2008 getting error
This custom application has been running for many years with no issue. We had our server crater and had to restore from offsite backup. The restore seemed to work well and the application runs and works but whenever we try and run a crystal report 2008 we get the below error. we have uninstalled both the crystal report 2008 package and sp as well as the cr runtimes. but the below error persists. we are running the reports via vb6 calls/interop and not as external. we can manually edit the reports and save them in crystal reports and it works but the visual studio visual basic runtime appears to not be registered correctly or is not seeing where to run the reports. any thoughts or ideas on items to validate would be apprecaited.
This is how the program works
A VB6 program calls a DLL and sends it paramaters, The DLL was created in VB 2005.net using the Microsoft.InteropFormTools
Error-Description.txt
CrystalDecisions.CrystalRe
This is how the program works
A VB6 program calls a DLL and sends it paramaters, The DLL was created in VB 2005.net using the Microsoft.InteropFormTools
Error-Description.txt
CrystalDecisions.CrystalRe
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thanks Noah....the crystal report tool itself is working fine...we can open reports and modify and save them. the issue is running as a call from vb6 into the crystal runtime for visual studio. It is not finding the right path or registry or something for it. thanks for the information - any other thoughts are helpful
@Blaine Roberts In that case, please try reinstalling visual studio and configure/integrate everything again.
Have you looked at the code and verified the report path being passed is correct?
Have you recompiled the application after the crash?
You say it is a VB6 application but then you refer to Visual Studio. I don't recall that VB6 was ever part of Visual Studio (may be bad memory on my part).
Have you recompiled the application after the crash?
You say it is a VB6 application but then you refer to Visual Studio. I don't recall that VB6 was ever part of Visual Studio (may be bad memory on my part).
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One alternative is you can try downloading an older (trial) version of crystal. In particular, the trial version CR 2008 has a tool integrated to open your report and search for fields.