ByParth Patelon Feb 07, 2017
Learn how to install crystal report runtime and tackle visual studio error which requires crystal report runtime.
The SAP Crystal Report is the business intelligence reporting toolcurrently marketed to small business.You can design reports both in ASP.net environment as well as Windows Forms and WPF environment. In past, SAP changed its name many times and currently it is known as SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio. The reporting tool is free for developers to use it for development purpose only.
Crystal Reports, from Crystal Services/Seagate Technology Inc., is a powerful visual report creation tool for Microsoft Windows. Rather than a specific product, it is designed to work with almost any existing database product. Crystal Reports enables third party software developers to run reports from directly from within their applications.
To run Crystal Reports in .net environment using Visual Studio, you will need to install Crystal Report Runtime engine on Client Machine. This engine consists of libraries and functions which are needed to show the reports.
Below are the given direct download links which will install the crystal report runtime engine easily
Crystal Reports For Visual Studio 2019 can be downloaded from the following link. This version will work on a version of Visual studio 2010 and above.
Crystal Reports Version
Supported IDE
Developer Edition Download
Runtime Download
Service Pack 25
Visual Studio 2019, 2017,2015,2013,2012,2010
First of all, login in to your PC as Administrator and follow the below instructions.
Choose the same version of crystal report runtime as of Crystal report for visual Studio and if your operating system is 32 bit or 64 bit, choose the version accordingly.
Download the zip file of Crystal Reports Runtime from the above given links and unzip and double click on .msi file
Go to next
Accept the licence agreement and go to next
In case, your system have older version of Crystal report runtime, the installer will ask you whether to upgrade the version. Click next to confirm or cancel to cancel.
Follow the rest of the instructions which are basically bunch of next buttons and click finish at the end. This will successfully install crystal reports runtime in your system.
In conclusion,You can now run your crystal report application without any issues.
Maybe sometimes you need to include the crystal reports runtime in your application project. In that case, go to Official site to download Crystal reports wiki page and download MSM File. You can then learn to include MSM file from the following link Using Crystal Reports Merge Modules MSM to create a Setup project