>Yesterday I found that I didn't have Crystal Reports installed with VS 2008. So I tried rerunning the setup. Of course, setup failed numerous times. So this morning I completely uninstalled and reinstaled VS 2008. VOILA! There's Crystal Reports.
>
>I click Add New Item, then Crystal Report. The report designer opens. I press F6 and get this:
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>Error 1 'CMS.Contact_Single.NewGenerator': no suitable method found to override
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>Error 2 'CMS.Contact_Single.FullResourceName': no suitable method found to override
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>Error 3 Assembly 'CrystalDecisions.ReportSource, Version=10.5.3700.0, Culture=neutral,
> PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304' uses 'CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine,
> Version=10.5.3700.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304' which has
> a higher version than referenced assembly 'CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine,
> Version=10.2.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304'
> c:\Program Files\Business Objects\Common\2.8\managed\CrystalDecisions.ReportSource.dll
>
>Error 4 Assembly 'CrystalDecisions.ReportSource, Version=10.5.3700.0, Culture=neutral,
> PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304' uses 'CrystalDecisions.Shared, Version=10.5.3700.0,
> Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304' which has a higher version than
> referenced assembly 'CrystalDecisions.Shared, Version=10.2.3600.0, Culture=neutral,
> PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304'
> c:\Program Files\Business Objects\Common\2.8\managed\CrystalDecisions.ReportSource.dll
>
>
>
>Mind you now - I didn't do anything to this report. Haven't added data, controls, or anything. My project was compiling fine beforehand.
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>In the CS file associated with the report are the following usings:
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>using CrystalDecisions.Shared;
>using CrystalDecisions.ReportSource;
>using CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine;
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>
>So, here I am again stuck because soime stupid MS product doesn't work. Again I have no reporting capability. I'm beginning to long
>for VFP.
The trick here is to read the error messages:
Assembly 'CrystalDecisions.ReportSource uses 'CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine Version=10.5.3700.0.
You are referencing an earlier version (10.2.3600.0)
Similar problem with CrystalDecisions.Shared.
Should be easy to fix.....
