How to deploy a Visual Studio 2012 Windows Form application which uses Crystal Reports in another machine

Question

I have created a C# Windows Forms Application in Visual Studio 2012 (and SQL Server 2012) which some reports using SAP Crystal Reports. I have used 'CRforVS_13_0_12.exe' (Crystal Reports Development for VS 2012) in my development computer (Windows 8 | .NET 4.5 | 64-bit). And it perfectly worked in the debugging mode.

Then I made a setup.exe of the software to deploy it in another computer (Windows 7 | .NET 4.5.2 installed explicitly | 64-bit). In that computer, I have installed the Crystal Reports Runtime 'CRRuntime_64bit_13_0_12.msi'.

When I install and run my application in the deployed computer, everything works fine including all CRUD operations for database, except the reports. When I try to view a report, It gives me the following exception:

Please help me to solve me this problem. Thank you!

Answer 1

you are missing the actual crystal report file on the target machine