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Crystal Report Viewer is not visible in my Toolbox

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. Just simply follow the basic steps.

Before will go to details, let me overview first the concepts behind .Net Framework. 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.

That’ all! Hope this tutorial is very helpful.

41 Response to "Crystal Report Viewer is not visible in my Toolbox"

Anonymous says:

May 22, 2012 at 7:06 AM

You are such a star!!! This has worked, thanks so much. Meshack

Jocode says:

May 24, 2012 at 7:35 PM

I'm appreciate your comment Meshack. Your always welcome~!

Anonymous says:

June 4, 2012 at 1:31 PM

nice one mayne...it worked.

IT says:

June 6, 2012 at 2:06 AM

Thanks

Anonymous says:

June 6, 2012 at 4:56 AM

thanks

Vuth Vary says:

July 17, 2012 at 1:12 AM

Thank you so much... This is very helpful :)

jocode tesear says:

July 17, 2012 at 1:27 AM

You're always welcome. Thanks for visiting my site

harsh says:

August 29, 2012 at 10:14 PM

thanks very much ............it is very helpful

jocodester says:

August 29, 2012 at 10:47 PM

your always welcome.

Diptej says:

September 21, 2012 at 11:14 PM

i think this is very much helpful to all of you who is suffering this problem

jocodester says:

September 23, 2012 at 3:15 AM

Yeah, that's true.. This the main problem they encountered why crystal report not visible in their toolbox.

Atul says:

September 28, 2012 at 9:14 PM

very nice help friend........:-)

jocodester says:

September 30, 2012 at 2:53 AM

Ur welcome

Joseph Aguilar says:

October 3, 2012 at 7:21 AM

thanks, if forget about this stuff.. thanks for this reminders...

bilal says:

October 8, 2012 at 10:35 PM

ow-some buddy

hasnain says:

October 9, 2012 at 1:01 AM

Thanks Joannou Fegarido, this is very helpfull for me

jocodester says:

October 9, 2012 at 4:23 PM

Ur welcome. and I also happy that this simple kind of tutorial helps your problem.

Hafeez says:

October 15, 2012 at 4:47 AM

Because of this issue i am not used vs 2010 since one year. Thank you very much...

dips says:

October 21, 2012 at 7:51 AM

Thankuu it works!!!

Obakeng Moshane says:

October 22, 2012 at 6:54 AM

Thank Bud, Crystal Report was driving me mad.

jocodester says:

October 22, 2012 at 6:42 PM

Your Welcome..

anuj says:

October 25, 2012 at 6:14 AM

this is not happening in my vs 2010 ultimate version :((

chanti says:

October 30, 2012 at 3:52 AM

thanks a lot friend this is very helpful for me...

Hardik Dobaria says:

December 27, 2012 at 3:26 AM

Thanks

hussain afridi says:

December 27, 2012 at 9:45 PM

sir it does not work in visual studio 2010 (Ultimate Version)

jocodester says:

January 2, 2013 at 3:38 PM

Actually it works.I already used VS2010 Ultimate Version, just follow the steps.

awais mobeen says:

January 18, 2013 at 11:43 PM

thanks for helping

kasun says:

January 19, 2013 at 3:15 AM

thank you .. very useful.......

Frank Molnar says:

February 11, 2013 at 12:32 PM

I have tried all the tips and techniques listed above and I still do not get the CrystalReportViewer to appear. I keep getting the CrystalReport1.mht message.

I did have CR XIR2 and CR7 on the machine. I have since uninstalled both. I have uninstalled and re-installed CR runtime SP2 and SP5.

Any other suggestions?

saeed says:

February 21, 2013 at 4:20 PM

Thanks

Tricia Agpoon says:

March 6, 2013 at 1:51 AM

thank you!! ^_^

OFsex Change says:

March 10, 2013 at 6:56 AM

Thanks from thailand

pranay mitra says:

March 16, 2013 at 4:23 AM

Thank you

dshah says:

March 24, 2013 at 11:14 AM

thanks Joannou Fegarido

Kris says:

April 2, 2013 at 5:01 AM

nice :)

spidermaen says:

April 5, 2013 at 2:42 AM

thanks this is very helpfull

Noor Alam says:

April 5, 2013 at 2:55 AM

Thanks.But when I am clicking on "OK" button selecting ".NET Framework 4" it show a message "The current project must be saved before changing the Target Framework". When I am clicking on the "OK" in the message ".NET Framework 4" automatically changes to ".NET Framework 4 Client Profile"

Sunil Kumar says:

April 22, 2013 at 12:37 AM

Thanks a lot dear

thaiindy says:

May 9, 2013 at 10:17 PM

Thanks a lot, it's very helpful

Mike Ramos says:

May 10, 2013 at 4:26 AM

I did this tutorial and crystal reports viewer still didn't appear. So, i just right click on any random tool in toolbox, and select "add tools" then search for crystal reports tools and add them all... CR viewer only appeared after i did this!

Yunise says:

May 15, 2013 at 1:39 AM

Hey, i tried it. But it doesn't work on a WebApplication of Visual Studio 2010.