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When you install Visual Studio 2005 Professional on your development computer, you get everything you need for adding Crystal Reports to your ASP.net 2.0 project or web site. However, your web server does not have Visual Studio 2005 Professional installed on it, which it shouldn't, which means your nice new reports will not work. What should you do?Here's a possible scenario. Let's say that you already have a ASP.net project created and you added some pretty reports using Crystal Reports. You uploaded the web page that is embedded with the CrystalReportViewer object, the crystal report file, MyReport.rpt, and updated the web.config file on the web server to include the assemblies for Crystal Reports. However, when you try to view the report or any page on the website, you get an error message.

Thanks to this forum post, Where are Crystal Reports merge modules for VS2005?, here's what you can do. Download Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005 - Service Pack 1 and install it on the web server. Voila! Your Crystal Report should now be working.

Here a couple of links for downloading the file.

Crystal Reports Runtime Packages
If you're using Visual Studio 2005 and the web server is an x86, download "Crystal Reports for .NET Framework 2.0 x86 Redistributable Package (32 bit)"

Business Objects Downloads for Crystal Reports and Xcelsius
Click "Get Crystal Reports, Crystal Reports Server, and Xcelsius downloads". On the next page search for Software Product = Crystal Reports, Product Version = .NET, and Software Type = *.