If you don't decide to support.NET 5.0 then every developer needs to seriously consider replacing/rewriting all Crystal Report now, or they may have a VERY serious problem in a few years. I'm sure stuff will run on 4.8 for a few years, but eventually it will stop. Official.NET 4.8 End of Life Statement. Crystal Reports Viewer is a Windows Store app that provides an easy way to open, view and print Crystal Reports files (.rpt) on all Windows devices! Our goal is to be the best.RPT file opener App on Windows Store. This app does require an internet connection to work. Download Quick Crystal Report Viewer for Windows to manage and organize your Crystal Reports. Easy View is the most flexible Crystal Report Viewer you will ever use. You can preview, print, export and email any of your Crystal Reports (.rpt) files manually or automatically. Easy View has many options that let you determine exactly how the crystal report will run. Do you know of any true FREE Crystal Reports(.rpt) viewer? I found the Free Quick Crystal Report Viewer, & it worked great, but after 3 days, it's asking me to pay them (Pretty slick). The viewer has to connect via ODBC, not the Save data with the report. I would appreciate any help.
Logicity Crystal Report Viewer: Main Features
View Reports
View Crystal Reports without having to purchase the full SAP Crystal Reports developer version.
Refresh Report Data
View and refresh your Crystal Reports with live data. A single click queries the database and refreshes the report.
Email Reports
Email your Crystal Reports to multiple users in multiple formats using the scheduler or with a single click!
Export Reports
Logicity can export a Crystal Report to Excel, PDF, or HTML format with a single click!
Schedule Reports
Schedule Crystal Reports to automatically run at regular intervals - hourly, daily, every week or every month.
Runtime Variables
Customize your scheduled reports by setting up variables that are executed at runtime.
Command-Line
Integrate Logicity with your application by utilizing command-line variable replacements.
Encrypt Reports
Encrypt Crystal Reports so that they can be run with Logicity but not opened and edited in Crystal Reports.
Report Logging
Track user activity when running reports: date, time, filename, username and computer name.
Hide Credentials
Solution files can be encrypted in order to hide the database login information from end users.
Password Protect
Require your users to enter a valid password before a Crystal Report can be executed.
Viewer Controls
Lock down any screen controls, such as export and print, when viewing a Crystal Report.
Multi-Database
Ability to save credntials and perform multiple database authentications per report.
Workspace Mode
Convenient way to organize and run Crystal Reports from one simplified user interface.
Report Instances
A simple way to view and save historical snapshots of a report to file system for archiving.
Solution Builder
Extremely powerful tool for developing 'solutions' to execute Crystal Reports in specific ways.
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
Crystal Report Viewer Download
- 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.
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
Crystal Report Viewer Error
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.
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