How to integrate SAP Crystal Reports in Visual Studio 2017

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Is it possible to use the report designer in the current release of Visual Studio 2017  The SAP crystal report wiki for visual studio integration only states   quot RC build currently not supported - Tested opening existing app and it works quot   I have installed the latest developer SDK  Support Pack 19 v 13 0 19 2312   but when I try to open an existing report   rpt   i got the following message   There is no editor available for  C     Report rpt   Make sure the application for the file type   rpt  is installed    EDIT  2018 02 28  By the time of asking this question I had installed SP19 on my machine  The current version which should resolve all my issues is SP22  which was released at 2018 01 11  All necessary information and download links are still available in the SAP crystal report wiki   EDIT  2019 03 20  Thanks to  ANewGuyInTown  The current version is 13 0 24

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FYI  Taken from  https   wiki scn sap com wiki display BOBJ Crystal Reports 2C Developer for Visual Studio Downloads  Overview  Support Packs for    SAP Crystal Reports  developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio     SAP Crystal Reports for Visual Studio  are scheduled on a quarterly bases and support the following versions of Visual Studio    VS 2010     original release and higher VS 2012     SP 7 and higher VS 2013     SP 9 and higher VS 2015RC     SP14 VS 2015     SP 15 and higher VS 2017 - SP 21 and higher   Download Crystal Reports developer  for Microsoft Visual Studio

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As of 20 03 2019 -  There is a new version of Crystal report for Visual Studio   The version is 13 0 24   The provided version in the accepted answer is 13 0 21    The newer version worked for me without having to do any workaround

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Starting with Visual Studio 2010  crystal reports is no longer installed with Visual Studio  It can be installed separately by downloading the install from SAP crystal reports website  SAP crystal reports provides two installations  The first is SAP Crystal Reports version for visual studio that is installed for working with crystal reports in visual studio  The other is SAP Crystal Reports runtime engine for  NET Framework that is installed when the application is deployed on server machine   SAP Crystal Reports in Visual Studio 2017 is now planned for Service Pack Support Pack 21  as of Apr 04 2017   The current available service support pack is 19  Service Support Pack 21 is expected to be released in September 2017    You can use the MSI to install on the VS PC  it won t integrate into VS so you won t be able to design reports within the VS IDE but your app will compile  There will not be any Templates either so just add the CR Viewer to the Tool bar  Upgrading an exist VS app will simply work   So in the meantime to edit rpt files you ll need the stand-alone Crystal Reports Designer until Support Pack 21 comes along   Sources   https   forums asp net t 2110984 aspx VS 2017 and Crystal Reports https   answers sap com questions 168439 crystal-report-for-vs-2017 html

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I post an answer because I can t comment but I followed  DrCJones steps  I installed the new Crystal Reports SP21 for Visual Studio 2017 with an older version running on my Windows 10  Installer warned me that it detected an older version and that it will overwrite it  Installation were through but I had the following message when I tried to open a project with reports in VS2017      The Crystal Reports Tools Package did not load correctly    I couldn t edit reports either  So  I manually uninstalled CR Runtime Engine  amp  CR for VS  then reinstalled SP21  finally rebooted   Now it works

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To integrate SAP Crystal Reports with Visual Studio 2017 below steps needs to be followed right    Uninstall all installed components from system related to Crystal Report   If any  Install compatible Crystal Report Developer Edition  as per target VS  with administrator priviledge   As of writing  latest compatible service pack is 23    Install appropriate Crystal Report Runtime  x86  x64  for Visual Studio   Not mandatory   Open solution in VS and remove all assembly references from project related to Crystal Report   If any  Include following assembly references in project    CrystalDecisions CrystalReports Engine CrystalDecisions ReportSource CrystalDecisions Shared CrystalDecisions CrystalReports Design CrystalDecisions VSDesigner  Make sure  Copy Local  property is set to  True  in reference properties  Build  Rebuild project

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I had the same problem and I solved by installing Service pack 22 and it fixed it

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Extracted from official SAP site https   wiki scn sap com wiki display BOBJ Crystal Reports 2C Developer for Visual Studio Downloads    Item   3 fixed my installation   This applies for ANY Patch after SP 21   FlexNet and In-Place Upgrade does not work   Once user receive the update notification from FlexNet server and finish SP21 upgrade  the product will NOT work  User MUST repair CR4VS and CRRuntime64 in Control Panel Programs  That   s a by design change to installer   a     Please notice that we are still facing problems on configuring FlexNet upgrade server  so currently user will NOT receive SP21 notification Microsoft Windows Update KB2999226 is a prerequisite for SP21   a     This is same as BI 4 2 SP4 and BI 4 1 SP10  Please refer to SAP Note 2451830  For VS2017 integration  user needs use    run as Administrator    by right-clicking setup exe  even if you are already log on by using Administrator account As most of CR RAS  NET Assemblies are now re-versioned from 13 0 2000 0 to 13 0 3500 0  user MUST remove all old CR assemblies from Reference list and add the new version of CR assemblies  then rebuild the application   a     For those customer user who do not wanted to rebuilt their application  there   s workaround to use  in app config web config  please see attachment    WinFormCRViewer zip   For reports using the ADO Net DB connection  in previous SP s  you could only work under  Net Framework 2 0 3 5  so using  in app config is required  Now in SP21  ADO Net is only supported on  Net Framework 3 5 or above

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Crystal Reports SP 19 does not support Visual Studio 2017  According to SAP they are targeting Visual Studio 2017 compatibility in SP 20 which is tentatively scheduled for June 2017

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I had exactly the same problem with my VS 2013 solutions when I install VS 2017 and Crystal Reports SP21  In fact it s because VS does not necessarily convert the solution in the first launch   Once you have installed Crystal Report SP 21  make sure that VS 2017 upgrade your solution   a window must appear  SAP Crystal Reports  version for Visual  with a radio button  Convert the solution    Screenshot in french      When I used the menu  File   Open   Project Solution   the conversion was not done   I have to do that     Add VS 2017 on the tasks bar Run VS 2017 and Open the solution with File menu Try to build the project  errors appear with Crystal Reports Close VS 2017 Right click on VS 2017 shortcur in then tasks bar and open the solution directly The conversion run this time  you can open  rpt and the solution build without error

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Please wait Support Pack 21 in September 2017  UPDATE  More info  https   wiki scn sap com wiki display BOBJ Crystal Reports 2C Developer for Visual Studio Downloads  VS 2017 - Tested opening existing app and it works  CR for VS is not integrated into the app so no new CR projects available- should be fully integrated in SP 21   About release  Link  https   answers sap com questions 168439 crystal-report-for-vs-2017 html  Moderator Don Williams said   Not supported yet  I tried to get it into SP 20 but due to time constraints DEV can t get it into VS until SP 21  due out in September time

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So to sum up  this is what worked for me after upgrading my VB 2010  CR18  to VB 2017    Uninstall all runtimes AND CRforVS  Reboot Install CRforVS SP23  no runtimes needed on developer machine   Open project  remove old DLL references  Add new references  DLL files that you need from C  Program Files  x86  SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports for  NET Framework 4 0 Common SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4 0 win32 x86 dotnet  Rebuild All  Have fun

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I had a workaround for this problem  I created dll project with viewer in vs2015 and used this dll in vs2017  Report showing perfectly

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This error occurs because at the end of the installation of Crystal Reports SP21 for Visual Studio 2017  the following screen appears     Do not check to install in runtime  this default to come marked to me is wrong  Install only Crystal Reports SP21 for Visual Studio 2017

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Visual Studio 2017 is supported in Crystal Reports SP 21  which is available for download as of 1 Sep 2017

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