How to deploy Crystal Reports 2008 project – part 2

Introduction

From part 1 of this article, you got list of steps in order to deploy Crystal Reports 2008 project created in Visual Studio 2008.

Next step is to choose deployment strategy, prepare installation script and then install it on IIS server.
There is enough written about deployment process from within Visual Studio so let’s give some people credit for their work – for example, please check this article – I am going to use it as a base.

All things considered there is still a variation to that process specific to Crystal Reports.

Note: Make sure you have latest runtime available for you – visit SAP download page – as of 10/19/2009 runtime version available is 12.2 .

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