Monday, March 24, 2008

Procedure to Deploy ASP.Net 2005 Crystal Report Application to Webserver

The DLL’s Required to be referenced while developing crystal report Applications:
CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.dll
CrystalDecisions.ReportSource.dll
CrystalDecisions.Shared.dll
CrystalDecisions.Web.dll
CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms.dll
Creating WebSetupProject for Crystal Reports:
File ->New ProjectàSetup and Deployement Projects->Web setup project->Give the name and save it in any location
Go to solution explorer->select setup project and right click->add->Project Output->Select primary Output and content files.
It will add all requird files from your project.
Again select setup project and right click->add Merge Module->You will be getting one dialogue box which contains the Mergemodules which are installed in your system.Ensure that merge modules “CrystalReportsRedist2005_x86.msm” present in your system,If you are unable to find just download from the following links
http://support.businessobjects.com/communityCS/FilesAndUpdates/cr_net_2005_mergemodules_mlb_x86.zip.asp
http://resources.businessobjects.com/support/communitycs/FilesAndUpdates/cr_net_2005_mergemodules_mlb_x86.zip?recDnlReq=Record&dnlPath=cr_net_2005_mergemodules_mlb_x86.zip

and place in “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Merge Modules”.
Add this merge Module to your project and then Build.Now you can able to install ASP.net CrystalReport application in webserver with no installation of Crystal Reports.


Cheers,
sivaram

No comments: