Still new to Azure services. I'm trying to deploy my web application to the Azure web app.

When I run it, tried to download the crystal report file as a pdf. But It's not downloading. I got an error.

When I searched this I saw that need to install crystal report runtime on the server.

But here I use the Azure web app. So is there any way to install it? if not, any other possibilities that I can do?

CodePudding user response：

• Azure Web app don’t support Crystal Reports. They do support SSRS reporting control for ASP.NET.

• Azure Web Apps is complete PaaS Offering where Developers completely focus on Productivity , while infrastructure is maintained by Azure.

• It has limitations of not able to modify the existing infrastructure or any kind of installations.

• Azure Web Sites are intended to deploy websites for uploading the folder containing the site with all the sources such as aspx, .cs, .js, .css, bin folders which can run without the need of installing anything on the server.

• To use crystal reports , try cloud service or Azure VM.

• We can't run Crystal Reports in Azure Web Apps as you can't install COM components in the Web Apps sandbox.

• You need to use a Virtual Machine and your app should run without any changes.

• Many of the reporting services won’t work due to Sandbox limits. Azure Web App sandbox

• We can use an Azure Cloud service as it will allow us to install 3rd party software: Common startup tasks for Cloud Services (classic) | Microsoft Docs

  Installing Third Party Software on Windows Azure

• Another option is to use an Azure VM Virtual machines in Azure