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1715332 - WARNING: Could not find prerequisite 'Crystal Reports XI Release 2' in path...

Symptom

  • Building a runtime deployment project in Visual Studio 2005
  • The project is to include the Crystal Reports 10.2 runtime
  • When doing project build the following warning is produced:

WARNING: Could not find prerequisite 'Crystal Reports XI Release 2' in path
'c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bootstrapper'

Environment

  • Visual Studio 2005 Professional
  • Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005 (version 10.2)

Cause

  • Incorrect Crystal Reports runtime file is being added to the project
  • CrystalRedist115_X86.msi is for Crystal Reports XI R2 (11.5.x)

Resolution

  • For Crystal Reports 10.2, add the CRRedist2005_x86.msi
  • The CRRedist2005_x86.msi is found in the  c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\sdk\v2.0\bootstrapper\packages\crystal reports\ folder

Keywords

deploy distribute error  pre requisite , KBA , BI-DEV-NET-SDK , .NET SDK / COM SDK , How To

Product

SAP Crystal Reports, version for Visual Studio .NET 2005