Crystal Reports for Visual Studio: prerequisite errors

Last Updated: 9/12/14

If you have visual studio 2010 or 2012 and you have having crystal reports prerequisite issues while building your setup project, then try these steps:

uninstall the SAP crystal reports for visual studio software. [DO NOT upgrade]

download the latest version:
SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio: Updates & Runtime Downloads
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-7824

Install it and the run-time [it will ask at the end of the install to install run-time too]

confirm this file exists:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\Crystal Reports for .NET Framework 4.0\product.xml

download the msi files via the URL listed in XML file, examples:

http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/crnetruntime/clickonce/CRRuntime_32bit_13_0_10.msi
http://downloads.businessobjects.com/akdlm/crnetruntime/clickonce/CRRuntime_64bit_13_0_10.msi

now you setup project should build, even if you choose to use local packages for prerequisites instead of on demand web downloads during client install.

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