VS.NET 2003 Webforms

jerrylan · January 27th, 2005, 01:02 AM

I am trying to follow through Chapter 4 of the first edition with VS.NET 2003.
The sales_graph.rpt looks great in preview, but when run the line which begins with <CR:CrystalReportViewer reports an error "Comma expected" The html code follows, I hope it is readable in this forum. Does anyone know how to fix this?

<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Codebehind="WebForm1.aspx.vb" Inherits="WebApplication12.WebForm1"%>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="cr" Namespace="CrystalDecisions.Web" Assembly="CrystalDecisions.Web, Version=9.1.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304" %>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
    <HEAD>
        <title>WebForm1</title>
        <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.1">
        <meta name="CODE_LANGUAGE" content="Visual Basic .NET 7.1">
        <meta name="vs_defaultClientScript" content="JavaScript">
        <meta name="vs_targetSchema" content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5">
    </HEAD>
    <body MS_POSITIONING="GridLayout">
        <form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server">
             <CR:CrystalReportViewer id="CrystalReportViewer1" style="Z-INDEX: 101; LEFT: 105px; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 152px"
                runat="server" Width="1030px" Height="1091px" ReportSource="<%# F:/CrystalLessons/7744/Chapter04/web_viewer_basic/sales_graph.rpt %>">
            </CR:CrystalReportViewer>
        </form>
    </body>
</HTML>

bmains · January 27th, 2005, 09:35 AM

Wouldn't that error be with the report, instead? Could you post that too?

Brian

jerrylan · January 27th, 2005, 07:33 PM

It wasn't with the report. I scanned the Internet all day looking for the solution. Instead of this code (which was generated by VS.NET):
"<%# F:/CrystalLessons/7744/Chapter04/web_viewer_basic/sales_graph.rpt %>"
It should have been:
'<%# "F:/CrystalLessons/7744/Chapter04/web_viewer_basic/sales_graph.rpt" %>'
Then it worked.
WHICH BROUGHT ME TO MY NEXT PROBLEM! Which I will mention, but not make a new topic because this is a discussion of the book and not a server configuration forum. I can't deploy my new web based Crystal Reports on my Windows 2003 Server because although .NET comes preloaded on it, it does not have Crystal Reports engine components installed. I now have to research the best way to get them on to it. If I can't figure a remote way to do it by tonight I will travel to it tomorrow and install Visual Studio Enterprise Architect on it which will take care of the problem. I really wanted to keep the server for only running the apps and not clutter it up with development software. I think that there is a way through deployment projects and merge modules.

Regards

tserva · April 30th, 2005, 07:02 PM

I had the same problem but jerrylan's solution did not work for me. What I noticed was that in the screen shot on page 121, the Report Source Custom binding expression needs to be in quotes. This creates the correct code in the HTML.

FWIW
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