Hidden Bits within Visual Studio 2005 Folder

May 10th, 2006

Today I was looking for a good way to deploy the necessary Crystal Reports assemblies which are easily accessible from within a Visual Studio project.  A quick search on Google showed this was a common problem which nobody seemed to have solved.  I knew the assemblies for Crystal Reports can be found in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Business Objects\2.7\Managed but I did not feel I could simply copy those files onto a destination server for a proper deployment. Instead I did a search in the Visual Studio 2005 installation folder, C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8, which appears to hide useful installers. Here are the results for a search of MSI files.

  • CRRedist2005_X64.msi
  • CRRedist2005_x86.msi
  • netcfsetupv2.msi
  • schema.msi
  • sql2kensp3a.msi
  • sql2kensp4.msi
  • Sqlce30setupen.msi
  • TutorialSampleCodeProjects.msi

In this case I have a CruiseControl.NET installation which has had trouble compiling an application due to the missing Crystal Reports assemblies. After running the CRRedist2005_X86.msi on that server it was able to achieve a successful build.  Problem solved.

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3 Responses to “Hidden Bits within Visual Studio 2005 Folder”

  1. Brennan’s Blog » Blog Archive » Preparing to Show SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services with Sharepoint Web Parts Says:
    July 27th, 2006 at 4:33 pm

    [...] Previously I had to set up CruiseControl.NET to build some code for Crystal Reports. I was lucky and found a useful installer in the Visual Studio folder. This time I had to run the Sharepoint install on Windows Server 2003 so that I could get to the Microsoft.Sharepoint.dll assembly. Fortunately I am running Virtual Server on may laptop and have a Windows Server 2003 instance available. [...]

  2. Vishal Says:
    March 1st, 2007 at 2:38 am

    Hi,
    I have a project which used to work fine with VS2003 when deployed with crystal modules that come with installshield X. However, when we upgraded our project to VS2005 our reports are not working.

    What i guess that the msi which is included with installshield X is not compatible with VS2005 crystal but I am unable to find "CRRedist2005_X86.msi" on my machine. If you have an idea, where can i get it from? & is there any other thing that results into this issue?

    Thanks ,
    Vishal

  3. bshirol Says:
    May 7th, 2007 at 8:32 am

    the merge module msi i slocated here
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
    8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages\CrystalReports

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