I have been having an issue with Crystal Reports for VisualStudio 2005 (VS.2005), where I was getting an error message saying ‘ABSOLUTE PATH INFORMATION IS REQUIRED’. Some of this problem I solved by using System.Windows.Forms.Application.StartupPath in front of the filename for the RPT report file when I tried to display the report. But that did not fix all the problem. In fact that did not fix any of the problem as far as I could tell. <\/p>\n
So, I googled ‘ABSOLUTE PATH INFORMATION IS REQUIRED’ and I actually visited EVERY single link. And there was generally not much that was relevant. Adding the startup path was all that was mentioned. Great! And it didnt work. Then I looked at the BusinessObjects WWW site, and found exactly one suggestion for a fix. Go to My Computer | Properties | Advanced and look at the PATH environment variable. Change this from something like %WinDir% to C:Windows. But this only related to VS.2003, not VS.2005. I tried it anyway, and it did not work!<\/p>\n
After a while I had a brainwave… Why don’t I just try running the compiled version of my code. And guess what? It worked. It should not have worked but it did. That was more confusing… WHY?<\/p>\n
Then my computer needed a reboot thanks to too many copies of VisualStudio running… and when it restarted guess what happened? It worked… Changing the environment variable, and adding the full path, and a reboot fixed everything!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have been having an issue with Crystal Reports for VisualStudio 2005 (VS.2005), where I was getting an error message saying ‘ABSOLUTE PATH INFORMATION IS REQUIRED’. Some of this problem I solved by using System.Windows.Forms.Application.StartupPath in front of the filename …<\/p>\n