Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application, currently marketed to small businesses by SAP AG. It is used to design and generate reports from a wide range of data sources. Crystal Reports is officially a member of the Visual Studio .NET product.
Crystal Reports uses an ActiveX control called Crystal Report to establish a connection with another program. A programmer can set properties of the Crystal Report control during design time or at run time.
Crystal Report Viewer is an issue in Visual Studio 2010, sometimes does not appear in toolbox. In Visual Studio 2010, Crystal Reports is no longer available instead, it is provided by SAP and it can be installed before should be able to use. However, Crystal report has been a component of Visual Studio ever since first released in 2002 until VS2008 and its supports Crystal reports and Crystal Report Viewer functionality. If you have already Crystal Report installed in your Visual Studio and it happens your Crystal Report Viewer is not visible in your Toolbox.
In Visual Studio 2010, it is different configuration from the .Net version, by default, when you create a new .Net Framework 4 Windows Form Application; it uses the .Net Framework 4 Client Profile which is the default framework, not the standard .Net Framework 4. Instead, from the .Net Framework 4 Client Profile change it into .Net Framework 4 to enable the Crystal Report Viewer available on your Toolbox.
To start – open Visual Studio – Visual Basic 2010 Language
Default Form open
When you noticed, there’s no Crystal Report Viewer Available in toolbox.
Before to configure the .Net Framework, first you are going to save your project on your specific folder because once the project could not be save, the dialog box appear to save first the project to enable any changes made. If you forgot to save first, message box will display.
So, after saving, in Menu – select – Project WindowsApplicationsProperties
In Windows Applications – go to – Compile and scroll down, locate Advanced Compile Options… and click it!
The default configuration is the .Net Framework 4 Client Profile change it to .Net Framework 4
Select the .Net Framework 4 and click OK to continue and another message that ask to change the target Framework for this project. Click Yes.
Now, go back to your form and see the toolbox if the Crystal Report Viewer is already visible.
When you noticed, Crystal Report Viewer and Crystal Report Document are now available on your toolbox.