I've recently upgraded from CR 10 which came with VS2005, to CR 11 Developers Edition. I have a project that has CR 10 reports in it and everything ran great on my development PC until I upgraded. Now when I try to run DNN from VS2005 I get a generic IE error page saying that there's either a problem with my connection, a problem with the address or a problem with the web site.

After paying Crystal for a single instance tech support call and wasting 5+ hours with a tech from India who's command of the English language is less than admirable, I find myself having to create a new DNN project and copying and pasting my modules into it since I can add CR 11 to a DNN project that didn't have any CR reports prior to upgrading.

Anyone else having similar problems or better yet, a solution?

Thanks,

Steve

I never figured out what FUBARed my DNN project. I took the sure way out and reinstalled everything on a new PC as I didn't have time to screw around trying to figure out what was wrong and Crystal Reports/Business Objects tech support was of no help.

Everything is working now and I'm importing my custom modules to my new DNN project.

I just thought I'd share a bit of code with you on generating CR reports without using the viewer. I don't know if there is an easier/better way with version 11, but this works on both version 10 and 11. I use a bit of javascript assigned to a button to open a regular .aspx page from within my desktop module. The Page Load event fires off the following code that renders out the .aspx page as a .pdf.

Dim crReportDocument As ReportDocument
crReportDocument = New ReportDocument
Dim sPath As String = Server.MapPath("myReport.rpt")
crReportDocument.Load(sPath)
crReportDocument.SetDataSource(myDataSet)

Dim crExportOptions As New CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportOptions
crExportOptions.ExportFormatType = CrystalDecisions.[Shared].ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat
Dim crExportRequestContext As New CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportRequestContext
crExportRequestContext.ExportInfo = crExportOptions
Dim myStream As System.IO.Stream

Try
myStream = crReportDocument.FormatEngine.ExportToStream(crExportRequestContext)

Response.ClearHeaders()
Response.ClearContent()
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf"
Dim myBuffer(myStream.Length) As Byte
myStream.Read(myBuffer, 0, CType(myStream.Length, Integer))
Response.BinaryWrite(myBuffer)
Response.End()
Catch ex As Exception
sbLogPDFExportErrors(ex)
End Try
myStream = Nothing
crExportRequestContext = Nothing
crExportOptions = Nothing
crReportDocument = Nothing
myDataSet = Nothing
GC.Collect()

ok... I got the parameters working on this one.  Can anyone help me out with the PDF opening up in a new window?