Crystal Reports Not Showing Images On Net

Have u ever wondered y ur crystal reports in asp.net application which displays images properly in developer computer and not on the Production Web Server.

The reason being though u install the web application through the set up wizards by installing the Keycode License there is one particular setting that is not being done by the installer it has to be done manually.

This is the registry entries that u have to do.

this entry is in
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"
"SYSTEM"
"CURRENTCONTROLSET"
"SERVICES"
"W3SVC"
"PARAMETERS"
"VIRTUAL ROOTS"

Actually whenever Crystal reports uses images in the Reports they are created in a particular folder which is then mpped as a virtual directory on the IIS. it then references this folder as a URL.

there are two keys that are needed in this Keys.

1.) "/Crystal_license" = C:\Program Files\Seagate Software\Shared\Design Time Control\ASP,,1 this is the asp pages that are used by crystal reports.

2.) "/CrystalReportWebFormViewer" = C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Crystal Reports\Viewers\,,201
this is the reference to the actual component which renders the images at runtime.


Happy Coding.
:-)