I was so proud of my comment to Brendan's post about Crystal Reports, I figured I should blog about it. Friends don't let friends use crystal reports.
My current Crystal nightmare is a depends (.DEP) file issue.
This development computer won't recognize the Crystal OCX for a VB 6 project; the machine ran fine with VS 2003 and Whidbey both installed on it, but once we placed Visual Studio 6 on it (with Crystal Reports “integration” via the OCX built in) we can't register the DLL necessary to use the OCX. Since we can't register the OCX we can't successfully compile the project. If I thought a call to Crystal Decisions (or Business Objects, or whomever) would solve it, I'd make the call but I've been unsuccessfully been down that road in the past. I uninstalled Whidbey, thinking that Beta code might be the problem, but it didn't have any impact -- I can't uninstall VS 2003 just for this so this is as far as I can go on this computer!
What I probably need to do is install VS 6 on a machine without any other flavours of Visual Studio and then it *should* work fine.