Windows Installer Requirements

To work through the Deployment tutorials in this section, you must complete the Project Setup in Setting Up the Development Environment.

Check that the following requirements are met:

• Visual Studio is installed. See Visual Studio Versions.
• Web or Windows applications that use Crystal Reports.

Use the .msi Windows Installer file to install your project on the target machine:

• The Windows Installer provides the Crystal Reports runtime and the merge modules that are required by a deployment project. See Crystal Reports for .NET Framework 2.0 Windows Installer.