Question about using a standard executable for the crystal report viewer

[ferriforty]

hi, i need to use a crystal report viewer for different projects which have different enviroment and will run on different machines. I wanted to make a unique exe and call it passing as parameters report, connectionstring and formulas... Do you think that it will run even if i don't have crystal report installed on those machines in which i need it to run (i was thinking of creating a standalone exe or something like that....). Just asking if it could be a good idea or if is better to implement CrystalReportsRunner in all of them and then install crystal report in every machine? (sorry if my english is not good)

[gerardo-lijs]

Hi, Crystal Reports Runtime needs to be installed in every computer that needs to use Crystal Reports. You can't avoid this dependency. If you want to create a standalone exe to interact with Crystal Reports with command line arguments instead of using this project, you can do that if it works for your custom needs, but in any case, Crystal Reports Runtime is always needed.