1642930 - Out Of Memory Exception when using the Crystal Reports WPF viewer in a VS1020 application

Symptom

A columnar report retrieving images from a database
The processing of the report is very slow
Often the application terminates with the error;

OutOfMemoryException was unhandled

Partial details of error:

System.OutOfMemoryException was unhandled
Message=Insufficient memory to continue the execution of the program.
Source=PresentationCore
StackTrace:
       at System.Windows.Media.Imaging.CachedBitmap.InitFromMemoryPtr(Int32 pixelWidth, Int32 pixelHeight, Double dpiX, Double dpiY, PixelFormat pixelFormat, BitmapPalette palette, IntPtr buffer, Int32 bufferSize, Int32 stride)
       at SAPBusinessObjects.WPF.ViewerShared.WPFUtils.DrawGDIBitmap(DrawingContext context, Bitmap bitmap, Rect rect)
       at SAPBusinessObjects.WPF.ViewerShared.PageRender.drawImageInstance(ImageObjectInstance imageObjectInstance, VisualCollection visuals)
       at SAPBusinessObjects.WPF.ViewerShared.PageRender.drawReportObjectInstance(ReportObjectInstance instance, VisualCollection visuals, Rect sectionClipRect)
       at SAPBusinessObjects.WPF.ViewerShared.PageRender.drawSectionInstance(SectionInstance section, VisualCollection visuals)
       at SAPBusinessObjects.WPF.ViewerShared.PageRender.drawSubreportObjectInstance(SubreportObjectInstance subreportObjectInstance, VisualCollection visuals)
       at SAPBusinessObjects.WPF.ViewerShared.PageRender.drawReportObjectInstance(ReportObjectInstance instance, VisualCollection visuals, Rect sectionClipRect)
       at SAPBusinessObjects.WPF.ViewerShared.PageRender.drawSectionInstance(SectionInstance section, VisualCollection visuals)
       at SAPBusinessObjects.WPF.ViewerShared.PageRender.Render(VisualCollection visuals)
       at SAPBusinessObjects.WPF.ViewerShared.PageView.Render()
       at SAPBusinessObjects.WPF.ViewerShared.PageView.set_PageObj(PageObject value)
       at SAPBusinessObjects.WPF.Viewer.DocumentView.ShowNthPage(Int32 PageNumber, Boolean hasAnimation)
       at SAPBusinessObjects.WPF.Viewer.ReportAlbum.OnCreateNewDocumentViewComplete(CreateNewDocumentArgs args)
       at SAPBusinessObjects.WPF.Viewer.DelegateMarshaler.<>c__DisplayClass6`1.<Invoke>b__4(Object )
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Environment

Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010
VS2010

Cause

The image size was over 5MG
Image in the database was 4288 x 3216 pixels, yet in the report the size of the image was 360 x 370 pixels (about 15% of the actual size)
This is too large for the CR image engine to process

Resolution

Reduce the image to the actual size it will have in the report
This step resulted in an image of 215 KB which allowed the application to work without errors

Keywords

CR2010 2010 CR4VS2010 CR4VS VS2010 NET2010 Crystal Reports for .NET Framework 4.0 crforvs 13 crash terminates System.OutOfMemoryException , KBA , BI-DEV-NET-SDK , .NET SDK / COM SDK , Problem

Product

SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio