The crystal report installer, CRRedist2008_x64.msi (for 64-bit operation system) and CRRedist2008_x86.msi (for 32-bit operation system), are both available for download. Attandance System Development Tools: 1. Visual Basic 6.0 2. Crystal Report 8.5 3. SQL Server 7.0. Downloads: 0 This Week Last.
I understand having CR2008 will not give me license for CR9.That is the reason for asking to get trial version. Have you called SAP to see if they can help? I have not called SAP yet.
Will their CR9 application run your CR2008 reports? Yes.their CR9 app will be running CR2008 reports and that is the reason for the problem. CR2008 reports is in need of using optional parameters which are features of CR 2008 and is not available in CR9.
So my plan to solve this problem is, Have a reports menu full of links to Cr2008 and run that report in CR9 and when a link to CR 2008 is clicked, it should close the CR9 and open up 2008 report. I wanted to try that on my machine with trial version of CR9 before proceeding in that direction.
You need to install the 'Crystal Reports Runtime Engine' from the following address: Download and install either the 32-bit or 64-bit depending on your OS and your Application you are trying to run. This will have to be done on each client machine that wishes to run your application. You can't just include the Crystal Reports dlls to make your application work. You'll have to investigate further into either windows installer setup projects or installshield setup projects to achieve something 'similar' but not the same. Crystal Reports has to be installed via the 'Runtime Engine' downloads or Merge Modules.
Merge Modules requires a setup project of the types listed previously to 'install' the crystal reports dll's. You can't just drop the Crystal Reports dlls into your bin folder.
You need to install the Crystal Reports redistributable that is for your version of Crystal Reports as it make registry entrys and such. If you are using the version bundled with Visual Studio there are redistributables located in the Visual Studio folders.
If you are using the Standalone version, they will be in the Crystal Reports Directories.