Vb crystaldecisions.windows.forms error in client PC

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In my developer PC I install the Crystal Runtime (.msi) so I can work with Crystal Reports. And it's working fine. On our server I tried to copy and run the .exe of my program and it gives me below error:

An error occurred creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for details. The error is: Could not load file or assembly 'CrystalDecisions.Windows.Forms, Version = 13.0.3500.0, ...and so on

It's a windows form and I'm using VS 2013 in Windows 10.

These are my questions:
1. Do I need to install Crystal Runtime on our server? And if needed, can you please give a legit link where I can download? I forgot where I download before (that's a year ago).
2. Is there other options you think is much efficient? I can only think two:
a. Make the program into installer-type (a bit hassle to install to a lot of PC)
b. Install VS 2013 in our server including Crystal Runtime but every update I need to copy all files and rebuild.

What I have tried:

I don't have access on our server. I need to justify why I need to install such programs before they agree. So if anyone experienced this before and made it work, I need your suggestions.

Posted 23-May-19 17:38pm

heyitsPJ

Updated 23-May-19 23:03pm

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phil.o · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-23T23:04:00

heyitsPJ wrote:
Do I need to install Crystal Runtime on our server?

Only if you are trying to use your (client) application on the server. The runtime has to be installed on every machine which will run some code using Crystal Reports objects. Do you really need your application to run on the server? Ideally the server would only provide services (web, database, files, etc.). A GUI front-end application is better used from a client machine.
Plus, if you do not have access to the server, installing a windows application on it might be useless.

heyitsPJ wrote:
can you please give a legit link where I can download?

How to download and Install Crystal Report Runtime[^]

heyitsPJ wrote:
Make the program into installer-type (a bit hassle to install to a lot of PC)

That seems to be a good solution, especially if you have to deploy to a lot of PCs.

heyitsPJ wrote:
Install VS 2013 in our server including Crystal Runtime

I would not recommend installing an IDE on a production server.