Symptoms: You recently upgraded or reinstalled ActiveReports on your machine and your reports are now showing up as XML instead of showing properly in the designer, and the ActiveReports icon is not showing when you open Visual Studio.NET.
Cause: ActiveReports is not registered on your machine. The most common reason for this is AntiVirus software which stops the the installation scripts from running.
Solution: Uninstall ActiveReports, temporarily turn off script blocking and re-install ActiveReports for .NET 3.0.
If the symptoms persist: You can manually register ActiveReports for .NET 3.0 by entering the following commands at the command prompt:
- C:\WINDOWS\system32\regsvr32.exe /u C:\ProgramFiles\Common Files\DataDynamics\ActiveReports for .NET 3.0\ARVSPackage.dll
- Run Visual Studio.NET and then close it.
- C:\WINDOWS\system32\regsvr32.exe /v C:\ProgramFiles\Common Files\DataDynamics\ActiveReports for .NET 3.0\ARVSPackage.dll
- Run Visual Studio. You should now be able to access RPX files.