Clickonce Deployment and Crystal Reports

[Auguy]

I would like to use clickonce deployment for my new vb.net Windows Forms project that uses the crystal reports that comes with VS 2008. In my situation the install files will be located in a network folder available to all of the users. From my reading on the net I believe I should make the crystal reports modules a separate install, but not sure about this. Does anybody have some advice on how to go about this or any problems with the CR installs and what the best method approach would be? Is it easier for deployment to embed the reports in the program or put them in a folder on the network? The program & reports will probably not change very often and there are only 5 or 6 reports. I wnat to make this as simple as possible.

Auguy
Sylvania/Toledo Ohio

 

[Bluejay07]

Unless you are using something similar to a terminal server, I believe that the crystal report runtime files must reside locally on the machine. I don't see any reason why you would want to place the runtime files in a network folder as they need to be installed/registered before they can be used. If you do place it in a network folder, users may think that they need to copy and install those files each and every time.

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