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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.

44 comments: Leave Your Comments

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

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

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  3. nice one mayne...it worked.

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

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  5. You're always welcome. Thanks for visiting my site

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

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  7. your always welcome.

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

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

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

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

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  12. Thanks Joannou Fegarido, this is very helpfull for me

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

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

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  15. Thank Bud, Crystal Report was driving me mad.

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

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

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

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

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  20. thanks for helping

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

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  22. 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?

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  23. thanks Joannou Fegarido

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  24. thanks this is very helpfull

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  25. 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"

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  26. Thanks a lot, it's very helpful

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  27. 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!

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

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  29. thanks very usefull

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  30. Nice post help me a lot.... thnx

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  32. Owmyaaageeee!! It worked!! Thanks a lot. Keep it up.

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