VS 2005 ClickOnce Deployment 1

[LonnieJohnson]

I have a Windows Form application that I am building and need to distribute to 600 users throughout the state. I am using VS 2005. ClickOnce seems to be the best thing for it. The application will have some reports that are going to be built in the Crystal Reports package that is included in vb.net.

However, I am having a very hard time figuring out how to distrubute the Crystal Setup with the ClickOnce process. Has anyone mastered this?

Thanks in advance.

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[rjoubert]

In your Project's properties, select the Publish tab, click on the Prerequisites button, and check the Crystal Reports prereq. The project will include the Crystal Reports distributable you need to distribute with the app. The only catch here is that your users will need to have Admin rights to be able to install the Crystal Reports distributable.

 

[LonnieJohnson]

Great. That must be why they cannot see the report. Thanks. I will talk to the network admin about it.

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[LonnieJohnson]

Ok. I just thought about what you said. Do they have to have admin rights to be able to install ANYTHING? Or just given rights to this file? Is that possible?

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[rjoubert]

I'm pretty sure they need admin rights to install the Crystal Reports package. Giving them rights to the file won't help. Once that is installed, the ClickOnce deployment should work without any problems (without admin rights).

 

[LonnieJohnson]

Ok, thanks.

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