Installing VS 2008 Crystal Reports Runtime on a Server

Posted on by David (dotNetDave) McCarter

I needed to update a program and when I brought it up in VS 2008, it changed the version of Crystal Reports to 10.5.3700. This presented a challenge to get the required Crystal files onto the production server. Of course using the VS web publish feature does not do this even though I wish it did. So I went to the Business Objects site (makers of Crystal Reports) to search for an install. I first download the version for 2008… made sense to me, but it actually turned out to be version 12.

Then I tried the download for CrystalReports 2008 ClickOnce Package for Visual Studio 2005 since it said it was version 10. Unfortuneatly it did not say what minor version it was. This turned into a headache because it kept asking me for a product ID before the install would continue. I followed the instructions and got the number from VS 2008 and that did not work. Even spend time registering Crystal with Business Objects and that did not work either. I tried to create a support case on their web site and that was not even working!

After many hours of frustration, I did a search of my hard drive of ANY file that started with “Crystal” and I finally found it! The installs are located in this directory:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\CrystalReports10_5

The files are either CRRedist2008_x86.msi or CRRedist2008_x64.msi. I installed them on the server and everything worked fine.

I hope this might save you from all the the wasted time I went through. Another reason why I love Microsoft Reporting Services!!!

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Published by David (dotNetDave) McCarter

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5 thoughts on “Installing VS 2008 Crystal Reports Runtime on a Server”

  1. we have developed a web application with visual studio 2008 and crystal report basic that bundled with VS2008.

    now we want to deploy the web application to third-party.

    I found out that I can deploy the crystal report basic with the msi that comes from VS2008:
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\
    CrystalReports10_5\CRRedist2008_x86.msi

    My question is:
    Is it royalty-free to redistribute CRRedist2008_x86.msi ???

    Thank you

    Reply

  2. I had the same problem.After installing CRRedist2008_x86.msi everything works well.

    Thank you. Helped me a lot.

    Sam.

    Reply

  5. Great man, saved me some tedious extraction of the DLL:s from my GAC on the development box.

    Reply

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