Crystal Reports - Custom tool error
While working on a Windows app that used Crystal Reports 9 with Visual Studio 2003 on .NET 1.1 I've stumbled upon a problem. For no apparent reason, the saving of a report took minutes rather than seconds, the .cs file associated with the report sometimes disappeared and randomly errors like the one below appeared:
Custom tool error: "Code generator 'ReportCodeGenerator' failed. Exception stack = System.IO.FileNotFoundException: File or assembly name CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine, or one of its dependencies, was not found.
File name: "CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine"
at CrystalDecisions.VSShell.CodeGen.ReportClassWriter..ctor(String filePath)
at CrystalDecisions.VSShell.CodeGen.ReportCodeGenerator.GenerateCode(String inputFileName, String inputFileContent)
I've searched the net and found a lot about wrong versions, deploying, etc. But I wasn't deploying anything, for crying out loud! First I thought it was about installing the Crystal Reports X runtime. I removed it, but that didn't solve anything. What was I to do?
Well, a temporary solution was to backup the .cs file somewhere, as it seemed not to change. Then I would just copy it back and add it to the project and it would work, but again, the time consumed by saving the report was huge! And there were caching problems. Sometimes I would see the report without the last modification in the application.
After a while I realised that actually I was deploying something. The project also had an installer, with the Crystal Reports .msm files. I remembered that I did install the application once, in order to test the installation process. Then, of course, I did remove it from the installed applications. That was it! All I had to do was to reinstall the application, thus repairing some Crystal Reports files or configuration that the uninstall process previously messed up.
Custom tool error: "Code generator 'ReportCodeGenerator' failed. Exception stack = System.IO.FileNotFoundException: File or assembly name CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine, or one of its dependencies, was not found.
File name: "CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine"
at CrystalDecisions.VSShell.CodeGen.ReportClassWriter..ctor(String filePath)
at CrystalDecisions.VSShell.CodeGen.ReportCodeGenerator.GenerateCode(String inputFileName, String inputFileContent)
I've searched the net and found a lot about wrong versions, deploying, etc. But I wasn't deploying anything, for crying out loud! First I thought it was about installing the Crystal Reports X runtime. I removed it, but that didn't solve anything. What was I to do?
Well, a temporary solution was to backup the .cs file somewhere, as it seemed not to change. Then I would just copy it back and add it to the project and it would work, but again, the time consumed by saving the report was huge! And there were caching problems. Sometimes I would see the report without the last modification in the application.
After a while I realised that actually I was deploying something. The project also had an installer, with the Crystal Reports .msm files. I remembered that I did install the application once, in order to test the installation process. Then, of course, I did remove it from the installed applications. That was it! All I had to do was to reinstall the application, thus repairing some Crystal Reports files or configuration that the uninstall process previously messed up.
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