Greetings,
I hope you can assist me.
My current development environment is:
Windows 7 64 bit
VS2008
Crystal Reports XI R2
I had to do the sp4 full build, sp5, sp6 and then run the DOS commands to
Enable32bitAppOnWin64 as well as the IIS commands to also emulate 32 bit app to get everything to work right.
In addition, I had to copy a lot of crdb_fielddef.dll’s from my old XP, as apparently fielddef DLLs were not included with this version. I guess I was
lucky that this worked, as all of our reports use ttx files as datasource.
Current Server Deployment environment:
Windows 2003 R2 32 bit
Desired future development environment:
Windows 7 64 bit (native)
Visual Studio (what version?)
Crystal Reports (what version?)
Continue to use the fielddef DLLs
Be able to deploy to native 64 bit and run in native 64 bit
Desired Sever Deployment environment:
Windows Server 2012
Native 64 bit
My questions:
1) What do I need to upgrade my local development environment (VS version, 64 bit
or 32 bit, Crystal reports version, CR runtime, CR msm deployment model, anything else you can think of)
so that I can deploy to desired new server?
2) 2) Can the new development
environment coexist on same computer as my existing development environment? l will still need to maintain the
existing environment to do maintenance to existing site.
3) 3) If I can download/install 64
bit crystal stuff on my existing development machine where I did all of the tweaking to make it emulate 32 bit, do I have to somehow run commands to ‘undo’
the 32 bit emulation?
4) 4) Are the fielddef DLLs (ttx files) supported in 64 bit versions of Crystal Reports?
5) 5) What exactly is needed to be configured/deployed to the 64 bit server for crystal reports to work correctly
in our app (Our application will not change, just the platform)?
Thank you,
Tammy Jahns