This is the exact line, and it does not produce an error--I'm loading a dummy report per your suggestion on your web site.

.oCrystal = CREATEOBJECT("CrystalDesignRuntime.Application")

>If the control isn't installed, you should get an error when you
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>CREATEOBJECT("CrystalRuntime.Application")
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>>I want to determine if my users have a Crystal RDC ("Embeddable Crystal Reports Designer Control") license in order to avoid the not-so-user-friendly automation error that results when they try to use it without the license installed on their machine. I thought the Crystal application object GetLicenseStatus method was the answer, but all I get is an error message, "OLE error code [hex error #]: Not implemented," when I call it with the two parameters (numeric & character) specified in Craig's book, page 199. Anyone have the correct witches' brew to get useful information from this function, or another solution? BTW, CR version 9.0 is in use here.