Uninstall Crystal: 'Crystal Reports Tools Package' package did not load correctly - Visual Studio 2022

Question

My Visual Studio Community Edition 2022 project no longer uses Crystal Reports. I have completely uninstalled the CR tools from my PC and I removed all references to crystal reports dlls in my project. But every time I open the project I get an error dialog that says "The Crystal Reports Tools Package did not load correctly" - I get it twice.

I've tried text searching the entire solution directory, rebuilding from scratch, and even uninstalling/reinstalling VS.

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I don't have the issue in other projects. It is just the project that used to use Crystal. This is driving me a little nuts. I know I can suppress the error. But I want to understand where it is coming from. I don't like the fact that there is a reference to something in my project that I cannot trace.

This is the entry in the referenced log file:

<entry>
<record>303</record>
<time>2023/02/22 17:00:46.698</time>
<type>Error</type>
<source>VisualStudio</source>
<description>No InprocServer32 registered for package [Crystal Reports Tools Package]</description>
<guid>{FE73BB80-53F4-4AD0-A5F9-6A0BCE662292}</guid>
<hr>0x8007007e</hr>
<errorinfo></errorinfo>
<path>C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\Crystal Reports for .NET Framework 4.0\Common\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\win64_x64\CRVsPackage.dll</path>
</entry>

Any help in understanding/solving this would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi @Michael Jenkins , 

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A! 

What is your project type? 

Please cleanly uninstall the SAP Crystal Reports from Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs. 

Besides, please check if you have Crystal Reports NuGet Packages installed. You can right click on your project > click ‘Manage NuGet Packages…’ > Installed > search for ‘CrystalReports’ > select it to Uninstall.

Meanwhile, check if there are the Crystal Report assembly references to the project by right click on ‘References’ > Add References > Assemblies. If you can find, please uncheck them. 

You can close all running VS instances and try to delete the hidden .vs, bin and obj folders in the project folder.

Sincerely,

Anna

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