Crystal Report Viewer

[adebar]

Hi,

in my VBNet project i use the Crystal Reports Viewer, where i only pass parameters to and so it does not have and does not need a database connection. I use the printing and PDF export function with the viewer.

With Framework 2.0 and Crystal Reports my installation package increases to ~70MB, where CR is around the half of it.

Do i have the chance to reduce this ? I would assume, that for the viewer only i do not need the complete CR redistributable.

Any idea ?

I do use VS2008 Pro.

adebar

 

[Tom]

Of course a lot depends on how big your project is and how many reports your talking about but in general I would say look for any large pictures your including in your reports and see if you can reduce the resolution on them to make'em smaller.

 

[adebar]

Hi Tom,

it is only one single report which is dynamically filled with data.

It's not the report itself which makes the distribution such big, it is the CR Runtime which is ~25-30 MB.

The question is, if it is possible to distribute only some necessary dll's instead of the whole CR Runtime ?

Greetings
adebar

 

[Tom]

Oh I thought you were talking about just the exe size... The only thing you can do is exclude the runtimes and let them install seperatly if needed. I would exclude the .net framework since most computers should have at least 2.0 already installed by this point.

 

[adebar]

Hmm, not a bad idea.

What happens if the setup is started and the Framework is missing ? It is necessary that the installer is completely offline, cause it's not guaranteed that the users do have an internet connection if they install the app.