Follow this guide to deploy ActiveReports Web projects to your Web server.

This walkthrough is split up into the following activities:

• Adding referenced DLLs to your project
• Installing prerequisites on the server
• Copying your project to the server
• Setting permissions on the server

To complete this walkthrough, you must have access to the Microsoft .NET Framework version 1.1 SP 1, or 2.0 and the coordinating version of ASP.NET. You must also have access to Internet Information Services version 5.1 or 6.0, and you need administrative access to the server. For examples of how to create ActiveReports Web projects, see the walkthroughs linked at the bottom of this topic.

Adding referenced DLLs to your project

To add referenced DLLs to your Visual Studio 2003 project

1. Open an ActiveReports Web application in Visual Studio.
2. In the Solution Explorer, expand the References and select the ActiveReports reference.
3. In the Properties grid, change the Copy Local property to True. (This ensures that the copy of the dll you are referencing stays with the project.)
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for each ActiveReports reference.
5. From the Build menu, select Build Solution or Rebuild Solution. (If you leave out this step, the DLLs are not added to your bin folder.)

To add referenced DLLs to your Visual Studio 2005 project

1. In Windows Explorer, navigate to the ActiveReports DLLs. By default, these are installed in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Data Dynamics\ActiveReports for .NET 3.0. 
2. Copy any DLLs used by your project. (If you are unsure which are necessary, open the project and look in the Class View under the References node.)
3. Paste the DLLs into the Bin folder of your project.
4. From the Build menu, select Build Solution or Rebuild Solution.

Installing prerequisites on the server

To install prerequisites on the server

Follow Microsoft's instructions to install each of the following on your Web server:

1. The Microsoft .NET Framework version 1.1 SP1 or 2.0
2. Internet Information Services (IIS) version 5.1 or 6.0
3. ASP.NET version 1.1 SP1, or 2.0 (must be the same version as the Framework)

Copying your project to the server

To copy your project to the server

1. Copy the entire directory containing your project to the server.
2. If your project is in a virtual directory on your local machine (i.e. C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\YourProject), you must set up a virtual directory in IIS in the server as well.

Setting permissions on the server

Depending on your project, you may need to set permissions to allow ActiveReports access to data or folders.

Some examples of required permissions on the server

1. If you are saving files (i.e. PDF or RDF) to a folder on Windows XP or 2000 machines, the ASPNET user ID needs Write access to that folder. For Windows 2003, it's user configurable, so you need to find the name assigned to the ASPNET user.
2. If you are reading anything from any folder, you need to assign Read access to it.
3. If your reports run on any networked data source (i.e. SQL, Access, etc.) you need to assign Read access to it.

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