VS2010 Crystal-Reports: "Invalid Keycode"

Question

On a legacy product I successfully migrated to VS2010 about a month ago: When I open it today and try to launch the Crystal Reports editor I get an error "Invalid Keycode" and a blank editor screen.

VS2010 Windows 7, 64b

Most advice is pointing me towards "Reinstall VS2010" - but I've also found a few forum posts indicating a keycode fix or registry edit. I've tried a few of these, but I still get the error.

Answer 1

You've got to uninstall "Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 - Beta x" and install the release version which can be downloaded from: http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/cr4vs2010/CRforVS_13_0.exe.

The beta expired on 12/31/2010

Answer 2

Acording with SENC4ME said, You can try to change the date of your system, change it to Nov/01/2010. I had the same problem y when I changed the date the problem was fixed.

Answer 3

Crystal Reports is no longer included with VS2010. I suspect that might have something to do with it. Here's a blog post from the company that owns it now that tells you why you should be happy about that. I don't understand much of it, but then again I also don't understand why companies like SAP are still in business.