crdb_adoplus

I was running into some problems when trying to use the Crystal Report Viewer in Visual Studio 2010 to view data stored in a local DataSet. After some initial problems with the Database login prompt appearing (you need to set the source with SetDataSource on the report document object, folks), I thought i’d sorted it, until I ran into this:

Could not load file or assembly ‘file:///C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\Crystal Reports for .NET Framework 4.0\Common\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\win32_x86\dotnet1\crdb_adoplus.dll’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Changing a setting in the app.config file sorted it out. Here’s what I needed to change:

<startup>
  <supportedRuntime version=”v4.0″ sku=”.NETFramework,Version=v4.0″/>
</startup>

to:

<startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy=”true”>
  <supportedRuntime version=”v4.0″ sku=”.NETFramework,Version=v4.0″/>
</startup>

Here’s the MSDN Article that explains the useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy attribute in more detail:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bbx34a2h(v=vs.100).aspx

Whether this causes me headaches further down the development path remains to be seen……