Question

I have published a WinForms application from Visual Studio 2010. It uses .NET 4.0. in the prerequisite dialog in Publish pane I selected .NET 4.0 Client Profile and Windows Installer 3.0. After publishing application to disk, I migrated it to client’s computer which first installed .NET Client Profile and after reboot it gave following error message:

Unable to Install or run application. The application requires that assembly, Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common version 10.0.0 in global assembly cache first.

After this message the installation process exits. I’m using .NET’s report in my project (not Crystal Reports).

Answer 1

You have to deploy the ReportViewer controls separately.

Check here on MSDN for more information: Deploying Reports and ReportViewer Controls

The ReportViewer control redistributable is a self-extracting file named ReportViewer.exe that includes an .msi and other files. You can find ReportViewer.exe at the following location:

%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\ReportViewer\ReportViewer.exe

You can also download it from the Microsoft Download Center.

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The type of control you are using
determines where ReportViewer.exe
should be run.

• For ASP.NET applications, run
  ReportViewer.exe on the Web server
  that hosts your application. This must
  be done by a server administrator.

• For Windows Forms applications,
  include the controls as an application
  prerequisite so that they are
  installed automatically with your
  application. You can use the
  bootstrapping application to automate
  this step:

  • Open the project properties page.

  • Click Publish, and then click
    Prerequisites.

  • Select Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
    Report Viewer, and then click OK.

  • Publish the application.

During application installation, a
check is performed on the local
computer to see if ReportViewer is
already installed. If it is not
installed, the Setup program will
install it.