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Don't you just hate it when your customers are more up to date on their machines than you are? 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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The dreaded conversation.
(developer, in a superior tone) : okay, you need to use the latest version of ABC. I am on 11.7. You need to update to that.
(customer) : I am actually on 12.1. Looks like you need to update.
(developer, very meek now) : Oh! uhm yeah, you are right. ahem, I'll get back to you on this.
(customer) : chortle
Just being anecdotal here (friend of a friend etc.), this never happened to me. 
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With me it was...
They: Are you using v14?
Me: No, I'm using v15.
They: We haven't certified that yet.
In reference to database drivers.
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Nish Nishant wrote: Just being anecdotal here (friend of a friend etc.), this never happened to me
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Be careful. Windows 10 is broken on my Asus UEFI-Motherboard. I dont know the exact cause, but it is nasty 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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What are the symptoms, if you don't mind my asking?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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kmoorevs wrote: where exporting his reports to pdf generated a report viewer (crystal) error. It was working one day, then the next...kaput!
So, I fire up the test rigs and let them install the latest batch of windows updates...restart
You didn't mention the error message. This is not an answer. But I think you have to check Processing Jobs Limit[^] .... which is last line of my Tip/Trick[^]
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NO PROGRAMMING QUESTIONS IN THE LOUNGE
Yes, now even me hates myself...
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Sorry, it was not intended as a question...just venting a little.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Just joking, congrats anyway!
And good luck finding the devious update... 
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I see no question in that post.
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Neither the joke icon it seems...
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That was hillaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarious.
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caught the exception
Crystal
Well there ya go!
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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When in doubt Run Process momitor.
Possibly look at a Path Length issue (how long is the string path?) or the path itself (does it have access permission still to the path ?).
Are you using a %path% variable, or C:\User\JoUser\Documents type of output path ?
Happy hunting
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It's user choice. The error is happening now when the browse destination is supposed to appear. This is all handled internally by the viewer control. For now, I have them printing to a pdf printer as a workaround. Thanks. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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try differnet destinations
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If running Win 10 check the KB 3135173 update..
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kmoorevs wrote: crystal
Worst piece of s*** I've ever worked with.
Setting a single property somehow cleared my entire object leaving it in an invalid state that could never be made right.
After searching in the deepest and darkest corners of the interwebz I found out I had to set that property using a whole different API (had to add about six references to set a single property), go through some very obscure classes and properties, get a reference to some dictionary, and then set the value of some string key. And all of that had to happen in a very specific order, because if I got a reference to B before getting a reference to A my object would be invalid again. Way to go Crystal.
It's a few years back, but I remember commenting my code "the programmer who made this must've been drunk and drugged!" and that was the most serious comment I ever wrote 
None of that was a joke, a matter of speech, or an overreaction. That was how it actually was... 
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I can sign that sentiment as well.
When we started using Crystal Reports we had a scaling issue, the support was non existent and the was literally hundreds and possibly thousands of people having the same issue.
Three versions later it still wasn't fixed and we swapped to Devexpress.
Their product wasn't really ripe by that time and we had quite some issues actually, but what a support! They really tried to fix everything for us by the next day, and either gave us a workaround or a fix with the returning mail.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: we swapped to Devexpress
We've used their WinForms control suite.
The controls were beautiful, worked really well, and had lots of features!
Whenever we did have a problem or question their support was great.
We got the same support you got, usually a reply within 24 hours and more often than not a fix or workaround.
I can't recommend DevExpress highly enough!
Too bad we couldn't use their reporting suite.
Our customer used Crystal and had hundreds of custom made reports.
They did have someone who knew how to create Crystal reports, but no one who could create DevExpress reports... 
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Sander Rossel wrote: but no one who could create DevExpress reports
I could do the switch, so why couldn't they?
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