Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Having Different Versions of Crystal Reports (8,9) in the same web application

See, We have a web application which is developed using Webclass Designer and currently runs on IIS 4.0 and IIS 5.0. It also contains a Reports Menu thorugh which the end user sees the data. These reports are mainly displayed using Crystal Reports 8.0.0.371. There are around 110 reports. The client wants specifically only couple of these reports to be migrated to version 9.0 leaving the rest. The reports are mainly opened, passed with SQL query etc in a single class file. So this is common for all the reports. Just that the object of this class file is created in every instance. The reference of CRAXDRT.dll of version 8 is added as a reference in this class file so that objects can be created.



Now my question is , is it possible to have two different versions of Crystal Reports in the same application. It means that ideally the support files are different. Also , it will be not possible for the report’s class file present in VB to refer both 8 and 9 at the same time. This is what I feel but as usual the client needs some support docs if this is true. Hence I need ur expert opinion on this.


Any help in this issue ...Please share ur expert opinionsHi,
I wish to do the same, did you manage to solve this problem, or does any1 else have any input?

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