Distribute application without installing CrystalReports

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i'm developing a application and to generate reports, i'm using Crystal Reports. I'm trying to generate my application and distribute it, and I want to avoid the user to install the Crystal Reports Runtime Environment to see all reports.

I'm developing this app on Visual Studio 2010 .NET, C# and i'm using Crystal Reports CRforVS_13_0_6.

So... i'm trying to discover if it's possible to (and if is, how i can make it):

  1. How to build my application with Merged Modules from SAP (Crystal Reports), to avoid user to install the Crystal Reports Runtime;
  2. How i can make a silent/quiet install of Crystal Reports with my Application Installer;

I've found those links, but didn't help me:

Using Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 Merge Modules (MSM) to create a Setup project

Run/display Crystal Report 9 on client machine without installing Crystal Reports

I know it would be easy to resolve this, but it really gonna be a headache to install on various machines.

Thanks in advance.

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1 Answers

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You need to add merge modules of CRforVS_mergemodules_13_0_6.zip to your setup project. (Localization files are not mandatory.)

And as noted in your above link, you also need to add VC++ 2005 Redistributable to the setup project. (See the note in this answer for more detail.)

With that, Crystal Reports installation is silent. But when run, setup.exe will prompt user to accept VC++ 2005 redistributable license agreement. I don't think that can or should be removed.