System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=

Question

I'm really desperate for a solution... I'm developing some small windows application in VS 2015 C# and I'm using MS Access and Report Viewer to present some stuff from the database. When I start the application on my computer everything is fine. On every other computer, I got this error

(System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified)

...when trying to call form with report viewer.

I have tried to clean, rebuild, add/remove references, reinstall Microsoft Report Viewer 2015 Runtime redistributable package, and I couldn't find any solution anywhere.

Does anyone have some idea how to resolve this?

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Answer 1

There are two things to check.

1. If you are using a Nuget package to manage ReportViewer, check that. Check for a broken package, remove and reinstall the package, or check for updates to the Nuget package.

2. In the project references look for a broken reference, by seeing if the ReportViewer reference has a yellow exclamation point next to it. If it does, remove and readd the reference.