I'm having trouble using the prerequisites feature for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Report Viewer. I've checked the box for this prereq to install along with the "Create Setup program to install prerequisite components" but the report viewer prereq is not installing.

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Regards, Mike DePouw

Hi Mike,

You should run the setup.exe instead of the .application file on the client machine. The setup.exe is a bootstrapper executable which willinstall the prerequisites first, ifthe prerequisiteshave not been installed yet and then install the ClickOnce application.

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Hi Mike,

[Guess]
Can you change the microsoft.reportviewer dlls in the Application filesto be included they are probably at the moment set Prerequsites.See if that makes a difference.

Cheers,

James

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Hi James,

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Regards, Mike DePouw

Hi Mike,

The Deploying Reports and ReportViewer ControlsMSDN document says:

"The ReportViewer control redistributable is a self-extracting file named ReportViewer.exe that includes an .msi and other files. When you run ReportViewer.exe, the following files are copied to the Global Assembly Cache folder on the deployment computer.

Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common

Microsoft.ReportViewer.ProcessingObjectModel

Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms

Microsoft.ReportViewer.WinForms"

In addition,you must install the .NET Framework 3.5 prior to installing theReportViewer Redistributable 2008. So you may also include .NET Framework 3.5 asa prerequisite to the Clickonce deployment.

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,
Linda Liu

Hi Linda,

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Regards, Mike DePouw

Hi Mike,

Thank you for your reply!

Your understanding about prerequisite is correct. In short, to deploy ReportViewer control, you have two options.

One option is to include .NET Framework 3.5 as a prerequisite and set thePublish Statusof the following files to Include in the Application Files dialog:

ADODB.dll
Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common.dll
Microsoft.ReportViewer.ProcessingObjectModel.dll
Microsoft.ReportViewer.WinForms.dll

The other option is to include .NET Framework 3.5 andMicrosoft Visual Studio 2008 Report Vieweras prerequisites.

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,
Linda Liu
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Hi Linda,

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Regards, Mike DePouw

Hi Mike,

> but it is not installing the Report Viewer on the client.

Does the client have the Report Viewer already installed? If not,you maytake a try to install the Report Viewer redistributable directly on the client to see if it can be installed successfully.

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,
Linda Liu

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When you say "installing on the client", what is it you are running? The setup.exe file or the .application file for your ClickOnce installation.

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-- Mike

The .application file. All of my current testing is being done with a currently installed app; just modifying settings, publishing, and running app.

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Regards, Mike DePouw

Hi Mike,

You should run the setup.exe instead of the .application file on the client machine. The setup.exe is a bootstrapper executable which willinstall the prerequisites first, ifthe prerequisiteshave not been installed yet and then install the ClickOnce application.

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