Crystal Report with Visual studio 2013 aspnet_client/system_web/4_6_81

Question

I am totally confused with behavior of SAP Crystal Report which i am using with Visual Studio 2013. When I run my ASP.NET Web Application, I am getting following folder path aspnet_client/system_web/4_6_81/crystalreportviewers13/ instead of C:\inetpub\wwwroot\aspnet_client\system_web\4_0_30319\crystalreportviewers13. I do not have any such folder found in my IIS 7.5 C:\inetpub\wwwroot\aspnet_client\system_web). Can you please help me on this? due to this i am not able to see the report.

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Answer 1

The most robust solution is to create a virtual directory under your application in IIS:

1. Go to IIS, Right click your application

2. Add virtual directory Set the physical path to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\aspnet_client\system_web\4_0_30319\crystalreportviewers13\.

3. Set the virtual Path to /crystalreportviewers13

4. In your web.config file add the following after the root element:

   <configSections>
     <sectionGroup name="businessObjects">
       <sectionGroup name="crystalReports">
         <section name="rptBuildProvider" type="CrystalDecisions.Shared.RptBuildProviderHandler, CrystalDecisions.Shared, Version=13.0.2000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304, Custom=null" />
         <section name="crystalReportViewer" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler" />
       </sectionGroup>
     </sectionGroup>
   </configSections>
   

5. Then later on in your web.config file, add:

   <businessObjects>
     <crystalReports>
       <rptBuildProvider>
         <add embedRptInResource="true" />
       </rptBuildProvider>
       <crystalReportViewer>
         <add key="ResourceUri" value="~/crystalreportviewers13" />
       </crystalReportViewer>
     </crystalReports>
   </businessObjects>
   

Answer 2

I had the same issue after battling an blank report (from the client, no issue using VS debug on server). I saw the different version while inspecting the source of the blank report, changed the folder name to 4_6_81 and it worked.