Crystal Report Export To Excel Error: "Error detected by Export DDL"

[Former Member]

I have a windows application in .Net 2003, whenever i export the crystal report on my development machine or other windows xp machines it runs smoothly, but when i deploy the application on client's machine having windows vista installed, it displays error of "Error in file........., Error detected by export DLL"

pls help me.

[former_member183750 · Accepted solution]

What is the exact version of Crystal Reports used?

Ludek

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I am using crystal report 9.1 with visual studio 2003. I can't upgrade crystal report to newer version, for that i will have to upgrade the visual studio to newer version, doing this i am getting so many errors & report format is changed too.

[former_member11696 · Accepted solution]

Sorry you can't upgrade but it's Windows that doesn't support that OS so you'll have to limit your release for those supported OS's only.

You could try using ProcessMonitor watch your executable to see what the failure is. Could be Access Denied Errors or possibly a dll cannot be found which suggests either a dependency is not installed or no access to it.

Try simplifying your app and a one field report and then add more parts until your get the error. Should help determine at least what part is the issue then you can drill into the cause and if there is a known solution.

Thank you

Don

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I am not getting you. I have a developed application in VS.Net 2003 with crystal reports version 9.1. Besides this i have also installed VB 6.0 with seagate crystal reports. But before that installation everything was working fine. I installed the application on almost all OS & didn't get any errors. But after seagate crystal report installation i am getting error of "Error in file...... Error Detected by export DLL" only on windows Vista.

Kindly help me out.

[former_member183750 · Accepted solution]

First thing to look at is the wiki [What versions of Crystal Reports are supported on Windows Vista in VS .NET?|https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=64259646].

Note that CR 9.1 is not supported on Vista. And if CR 9.1 is not supported on Vista, any earlier version of CR will also not be supported on Vista. That is not to say the app(s) will not work, they may - or not. You never know... and we have no experience with these types of installs as we don't need to have it.

Next, have a look at KBase [1205312 - "Error detected by export DLL" while exporting to Excel after applying SP2 on Windows 2003 Server|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/oss_notes_boj/sdn_oss_boj_bi/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/scn_bosap/notes%7B6163636573733d36393736354636443646363436353344333933393338323636393736354637333631373036453646373436353733354636453735364436323635373233443330333033303331333233303335333333313332%7D.do]. Not exactly the same OS, but I'd follow through on the suggestions in that KB anyhow.

Finally, If this app works on a Vista box when a VB 6 app is not installed, compare the dlls loaded between that box and the one that has both apps. Use [Modules|https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/012002523100006252802008E/modules.zip] to do that.

Other than that, only suggestion I have is to upgrade to a version of CR that does support Vista.

- Ludek

[former_member11696]

Hello,

Windows does not support .NET 2003 on Vista using IIS 7. I believe your only options are to update VS to a version that supports all OS's you plan to deploy to. As well you should also upgrade to CR 2008 Service Pack 2 so it too is supported on the Vista platform.

Here are 3 MS Kbase articles to help:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb188244

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t6dbcb8d%28v=vs.71%29.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163453.aspx

And how to "hack it" to possibly make it work:

http://blogs.iis.net/brian-murphy-booth/archive/2007/03/09/how-to-setup-asp-net-v1-1-visual-studio-n...

Be aware that CR does not support anything that MS does not support.

Thank you

Don

Edited by: Don Williams on Jan 26, 2011 8:33 AM