Active Reports v7 on WindowsService, CAS Error, that I'm unable to get around

Posted by: brad.galloway on 9 April 2020, 2:36 am EST

  • Posted 9 April 2020, 2:36 am EST

    I’m working on a windows service, and I’m using active reports to generate a report each day. As these things usually go, on my machine it works fine, but when I push it to our development testing machine, I encounter the following error:

    System.NotSupportedException: This method implicitly uses CAS policy, which has been obsoleted by the .NET Framework. In order to enable CAS policy for compatibility reasons, please use the NetFx40_LegacySecurityPolicy configuration switch. Please see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=155570 for more information.

    This error occurs when I try and run the SectionReport.Run() method. Now, everywhere I look online and within my company tells me to add the following tag to the app.config file:

    <NetFx40_LegacySecurityPolicy enabled=“true”/>

    Having this tag in there causes a new error when trying to install the service on the test host:

    Service ‘’ cannot be started due to the following error: Cannot start service on computer ‘.’.

    I’ve created the license.licx file and added it to the project, and I’ve also used the ApplicationLicenseGenerator.exe to create a dll license file that gets referenced and pulled into the application.

    Any advice would be helpful. Let me know if you need more info.

  • Posted 9 April 2020, 2:43 am EST

    I have version 7.1.7572.0 if that helps at all.

  • Posted 9 April 2020, 5:19 am EST

    Hello,

    Generally, “System.NotSupportedException: This method implicitly uses CAS policy,” issue is solved by adding the following line:

    <NetFx40_LegacySecurityPolicy enabled=“true”/>

    However, “Service ‘’ cannot be started due to the following error: Cannot start service on computer ‘.’” , this is a general error. Could you please provide the stack trace or more information so that I can help you.

    Please note that AR7 is out of development mode now and we don’t support it. I suggest you to upgrade to our latest version i.e AR14. For more information, you can refer the following link:

    https://www.grapecity.com/activereports https://www.grapecity.com/activereports/docs/v14/online/overview.html

    Also, you can download the trial version of AR14 from the following link: https://www.grapecity.com/download/activereports

    Thanks,

    Mohit

  • Posted 9 April 2020, 7:09 am EST

    Thanks for your reply. I have been looking, and I’m not able to get the stack trace, however, using Event Viewer I was able to get a bit more detail. It says the process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.

    Application: .exe Framework Version: v4.0.30319 Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception. Exception Info: System.TypeLoadException at .Program.Main()

    Even if it turns out you can’t help me, thanks for at least trying to help with my issue.

  • Posted 13 April 2020, 1:06 am EST

    Hello,

    Could you please try to remove the AR component and use the following line

    <NetFx40_LegacySecurityPolicy enabled=“true”/>

    And see if the error is still reproducible. Could you please check with the latest version of the AR.

    Thanks,

    Mohit

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