Thursday, June 28, 2012

Fix for, "The Crystal Report Viewer is unable to create it's resource objects" error message in Internet Explorer

Problem;
Receiving 'The Crystal Report Viewer is unable to create it's resource objects' error message even after installing the Crystal Report Viewer ActiveX Control 


Solution;
Manually download, extract and register the necessary .dll files
  1. Go to the following location http://thewebsitewherecrystalisinstalled/crystalreportsviewers11/ActiveXControls/ActiveXViewer.cab
  2. When prompted save to your local computer
  3. Open the cabinet file and copy the contents of it to C:\
  4. Click on Start and type in cmd in the search box.  Right click on cmd and select Run as Administrator
  5. Type the following commands in the Command prompt window; hit Enter after each line
  • cd\
  • REGSVR32 /S CRVIEWER.DLL
  • REGSVR32 /S REPORTPARAMETERDIALOG.DLL
  • REGSVR32 /S SVIEWHLP.DLL
  • REGSVR32 /S SWEBRS.DLL

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