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Determine if Crystal is installed

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Category: Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005 and Newer
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Forum Discription: .NET programming API, report integration
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Topic: Determine if Crystal is installed
Posted By: muhlbeid
Subject: Determine if Crystal is installed
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2007 at 4:25pm
Is there a way to programatically determine if Crystal Reports for VS 2005 is installed on a client machine?


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Posted By: BrianBischof
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2007 at 9:16pm
Not that I know of officially, but the quickest thing I would do is look for CR DLL that gets installed with VS.NET. Should also be pretty easy to look for the proper CR folders within the .NET installation folder. A little research would make it easy to figure what to check for.

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Posted By: muhlbeid
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2007 at 8:44am
Thanks for the response. 
 
I was not as clear as I could have been.  I wanted to know if it there is a way to programatically determine if the CR redistributables for CR VS2005 have been installed on an end users computer, not on a development computer.

Posted By: BrianBischof
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2007 at 2:19pm
I can't tell you how to do it, but I would take a computer that had the redistributables installed and determine where/what is installed and what you can use to test for existence on other machines.

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Posted By: IdoMillet
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2007 at 11:33am
Look it up in the registry.

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