Hope you are looking for SAP Crystal reports, How to Install Crystal Reports for Visual Studio? I Hope this article will help you. Crystal Report is the standard reporting tool and it brings the ability to create interactive, presentation-quality reporting system which has been the strength of Crystal Reports for years — to the .NET platform. With Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET, you can host reports on Web and Windows platforms and publish Crystal reports as Report Web Services on a Web server.

Starting with Visual Studio 2010, crystal reports is no longer installed with Visual Studio. It can be installed separately by downloading the install from SAP crystal reports website. www.sap.com is the official website of crystal report currently it supports following Visual Studio versions:

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Express, Professional, Premium and Ultimate)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 (Express, Professional, Premium and Ultimate)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 (Express, Community, Professional, Premium and Ultimate)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 (Express, Community, Professional, Enterprise,Ultimate)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 (Express, Community, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 (Express, Community, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate)

Get access to these downloads:

• SAP Crystal Reports for Visual Studio Installer :- This we can use for development purpose.
• SAP Crystal Reports Runtime Engine (32 bit and 64 bit) :- Usually this we install in Client PC. Developers not using this.
• SAP Crystal Reports Runtime Merge Modules :- This we use to create setup file for client side installations. A merge module is a set of components that are merged with a Windows installer for applications that needs.
• SAP Crystal Reports Web Services/XML Data Driver :- Used to support web-services and you can create reports using XML as data source.

Note : You need to install Visual Studio before installing Crystal report.

I started working with Visual studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008. It had inbuilt crystal report. But in later version we needs to download separately.

Download SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio: