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I know we're not supposed to be going live with .Net 3.5 / Orcas Beta 1 yet, but hey. 

I ran into a Crystal Reports deployment problem with an asp.net web application developed in Orcas beta 1, using the bundled version of crystal reports.  The problem is that the crystal report dlls used in a Beta 1 project are 10.5.3700.0 but there don't appear to be any merge modules available to support this version number, so there is no supported way to run the Orcas version of Crystal Reports on a server, without installing Orcas itself.  I tried numerous options of digging out the 10.5.3700.0 dlls from program files\common files\business objects etc and putting them in the web site bin directory on the server, but that didn't work.  The obvious error message that comes up is as follows:

Could not load file or assembly 'CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine, 
Version=10.5.3700.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304' or one of its dependencies. 
The system cannot find the file specified.

what i ended up doing was instructing the web application to bind to the 10.2.3600.0 versions of the assemblies, which are already deployed using the normal CR server install.

here is what i added to the end of my web.config file to get it going:

     ....
     <runtime>
        <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
            <dependentAssembly>
                <assemblyIdentity name="CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine" publicKeyToken="692fbea5521e1304"/>
                <bindingRedirect oldVersion="10.5.3700.0" newVersion="10.2.3600.0"/>
            </dependentAssembly>
            <dependentAssembly>
                <assemblyIdentity name="CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Shared" publicKeyToken="692fbea5521e1304"/>
                <bindingRedirect oldVersion="10.5.3700.0" newVersion="10.2.3600.0"/>
            </dependentAssembly>
            <dependentAssembly>
                <assemblyIdentity name="CrystalDecisions.Shared" publicKeyToken="692fbea5521e1304"/>
                <bindingRedirect oldVersion="10.5.3700.0" newVersion="10.2.3600.0"/>
            </dependentAssembly>
        </assemblyBinding>
    </runtime>
</configuration>