crystal reports v9 and 64 bit OS

[brews]

Using VB6 and Crystal Reports v9. Program works on a 64 bit OS but the reports give a 'runtime error 5003'. Seems that I need to deploy a cr runtime file.

Any ideas would be great.

Thanks.

 

[MJRBIM]

Crystal Reports v9 may have installed on Windows 64 bit OS - but I expect that it's not going to run properly.

Even the new product can have issues if it is installed in the C:\Program Files (x86) path for 64-bit - rather than the expected C:\Program Files path.

My advice would be to move to CR-2008(which is vendor supported).



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[brews]

Thanks for the response. Does cr2008 work with vb6? You mention that cr2008 is vendor supported. Wasn't v9 vendor supported at one time? Why do you expect it not to run properly on a 64 bit OS? Is it because of the path? If that's the case can it be installed in c:\program files path?

Thanks.

 

[chelseatech]

I'm using Vista 64 with CR 10 and 2008 installed and working fine. I could not get CR 8 to install on that machine. I use virtual machines with XP for older versions of Crystal.

Can also confirm that VB 6 will NOT work with CR 2008. VB 6 will work fine with all versions up to CR XI. They then changed the object model and you need Dot Net 2 or later to use Crystal 2008.

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[brews]

Am working on a .net version. Taking longer than expected.

Thanks for the info.