Symptoms: The "Specified Cast Is Not Valid" exception fires.

Cause: There is a mix of old and new dlls in the references.

Solution:

1. Remove all ActiveReports for .NET 2.0 references from the project.
2. Add the ActiveReports for .NET 2.0 references necessary to your project, making sure to use only references to assemblies from the latest build installed on your machine.

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Symptoms: The exported RTF file does not look exactly like the original report.

Cause: The RTF export is not WYSIWYG, and is based on WordPad rather than Word, so there are a number of limitations.  The following items are not supported in the RTF export.

• Line controls
• Backcolor
• Shape controls
• Overlapping controls
• Control borders (except for borders on the RichTextBox control, which are supported)
• Angled text

Solution: Try to avoid using the above items in reports which will be exported to RTF.

 

 

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