>>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.
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>>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	
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>>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	
>>
>>

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>>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;
>>

>>
>>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.....

I did read the messages, and I thought " I just installed this. Crystal CAME with VS - what older references could it be talking about???". Since I have no other installation of CR on this PC, then VS installed the wrong assemblies.