I have a project that I created using vb net 2005 that opens crystal reports and automatically logs on and gives me the data that I am requesting. All the reports were created using crystal reports xi release 2. The project works wonderful have had no problem. Have even installed it on windows 7 32 bit and works great. Here comes the problem. SAP Crystal Reports 2008 and SAP Crystal Reports 2008 SP1 use the same Assembly Version number. To check whether you have SAP Crystal Reports 2008 SP1 installed, verify that the file version starts with 12.1 and not 12.0.
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.
How to install Crystal Report Runtime
What is Crystal Report Runtime
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.
How to download
Download Crystal Report runtime (Direct Link)
Below are the given direct download links which will install the crystal report runtime engine easily
Crystal Report runtime Support Pack 19 - Latest Version
- Windows Server 2016
- IIS 10 on Windows Server 2016
- Addressed over 10 customer Incidents.
Crystal Reports Older Version download
Support Pack 18
- Supports Visual Studio 2015 Update3
- Also support SQL Server 2014
- Support for SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere 17
- Addressed several customer Incidents.
Support Pack 17
- Support for Firefox ESR 45.
- Support for Office 2016.
- Addressed 10 customer Incidents.
- SAP HANA SP12.
Support Pack 16
- Support for Edge browser on Win 10.
- Support for Safari 9 on Mac OS 10.11.
- Addressed several Incidents.
- Support for HANA SP11.
Crystal Reports Xi Professional Edition
Support Pack 15
Download Crystal Reports Developer Edition for Visual Studio
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.
Older Version Crystal Reports For Visual Studio download links
Crystal Reports Version
Supported IDE
Developer Edition Download
Runtime Download
Service Pack 25
Visual Studio 2019, 2017,2015,2013,2012,2010
How to Install Crystal Report runtime
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.
Crystal Reports Xi
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