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Unable to install My program. Mostly has to do with Crystal Reports

Okay, This question has probably been asked before but I can't seem to solve it with anything that I've seen. I published my program and tried setting it up on another computer. At first it gave me this error:

"Unable to install or run the application. the application requires that assembly microsoft.reportviewer.processingobjectmodel version 9.0.0.0 be installed in the global assembly cache (GAC) first."

After searching I found that including everything in the 'Application Files' before publishing made that go away, only to be replaced with

'Application cannot be started. Contact the application vendor.'

After searching and doing a lot of things on the computer that I want this program to be setup on, I checked (Crystal Report Basic For Visual Studio 2008 (x84, x64)) in the Prerequisite. On the Computer that I need this program on, it won't download this at all. It gives me a message box to either retry or cancel. Some pages suggest that the Crystal report package that automatically downloads is not the right one. When I tried following what is said here, I got stuck because the links won't open. Any help appreciated, It's frustrating because I've been working on this program for months and I get stuck on the last step :/

oh .. and ... I don't know if this has anything to do with this, but I built the program using Windows 7, then updated to Windows 8, then updated to Windows 10.

Solution

  • I finally managed to make it work :)

    Here is what I did:

    1. I followed this video and I was able to install my program to the other computer.
    2. When I opened it, I got a problem that the program can't find my MS Access DataBase, so I went to the setup project -> Right click -> add -> File, And I navigated to my original project's folder and added everything in there, and Viola! ... It works :)

    I hope this helps somebody else :)