Crystal Report Problem after Deployment (w/ .msm's)

[sjf905]

Hello,

I have a Windows Application that will successfully deploy in all respects but one. The application takes user input, stores it in a database, and builds a Crystal Report from the database. This works fine before deployment.

When I deploy and install the application, everything works fine except that when I try to build the Crystal Report, I get the last one that was created before the deployment build, everytime. User input works fine, it does update the database everytime, but I always am left with the last Crystal Report that was genreated before deployment when I try to create a new one.

I am using .NET 2003, Bundled Crystal Reports for VS .NET, and have included the following Merge Modules in the setup project:

-Crystal_Database_Access2003.msm
-Crystal_Database_Access2003_enu.msm
-Crystal_Managed2003.msm
-Crystal_regwiz2003.msm

My Crystal Reports version is unregistered but I do include the correct license key.

Thanks for any help.

 

[sjf905]

**Update:
The error is that my report fields are based off a database with a static path to my debug folder. I do include the database in deploy but the app keeps looking at the db in my debug folder rather than the folder that the user puts my app in. I need to set up the report so that the path will look something like:

Application.StartupPath.ToString() + "\\MyDatabase.mdb

Anyone know how to do that?

 

[IT4EVR]

I base my reports off of datasets if I have to use an Access database. I put the actual database in an App_Data folder within the application. Then the report is based on the dataset. The report is then not coupled to an explicit file location.