Could not load file or assembly CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine

Question

My user\'s Terminal Runs 2 application. One of which I built an application using VS 2005 with Crystal Reports bundled version and another outside product which uses a diffe

Answer 1

Hey I was also having this problem. In windows 7 vs2010 , But i installed this SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio Updates & Runtime from this site now its working fine. Link is mentioned below

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-7824

Answer 2

Here is working solution tested!

1. you need to go here https://www.sap.com/cmp/td/sap-crystal-reports-visual-studio-trial.html there, you need to register they will send you link to download

2. link to download it will look like this:

select either "SAP Crystal Reports for Visual Studio (SP27) runtime (64-bit)" or "SAP Crystal Reports for Visual Studio (SP27) runtime (32-bit)" depending on your machine.

download and install, close your VS before installation, and reopen VS and recompile it, the error will be gone!

3. the download file name in my case is this:

Done!

Answer 3

Check out this post on when the GAC vs BIN folder gets used. It sounds possible that the other users have it in their bin folder. I'd start by checking there. Or in this case, I might start by putting it there and see if the problem is resolved, since you have a user that cannot work right now.

Answer 4

I know this is an old question, but it was never answered, and I think this might help. I have seen this issue with using crystal reports while compiling in .NET Framework 4.0 or later. To fix it you have to add an app.config file to your project and put in an entry that tells the framework to use the legacy loader. See Crystal Reports are not working in Visual Studio 2010

<startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true">
  <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/>
</startup>

Answer 5

Try with installing SAP Crystal Reports runtime engine for .NET Framework. It works for me.

Answer 6

Here is one reason I got the error. I installed Crystal reports 11 version and the assembly in the GAC is 11.0.3300.0 (To check the version installed in your machine Windows+R => assembly). Screenshot/link below shows the version installed on my machine.

But in web.config of my code that I obviously checked out from my server is looking for crystal reports version 13.0.2000.0.

Solution: Renamed the version, PublickeyToken as per the installed crystal Reports version in my web.config. and this made my code running.