Everytime I work on an SSRS report in visual studio I have this grid that appears in design mode, on top of the report itself...
Does anyone know how I can remove this from my view? I know I can click and scroll to reduce the size, but I would like to remove it entirely.
Thanks.
While in design mode:
Menu: Report > View > Parameters (toggle)
I'm missing the "Report Data Pane" feature in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Integrated Shell. Shouldn't it be at the bottom of the "View" menu selection? I've tried CTRL+ALT+D with no success.
I want to use the Report Data Pane feature to create Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 reports.
Could be that something has overridden the hotkey or menu hasn't loaded. Click on the report body, then CTRL-Q to put focus on the Quick Launch, then type in "Report Data" (without quotes).
Now can someone tell me how to get VS to remember to show this pane for reporting projects.
I have just opened up a project that contains SSRs reports and yet I am unable to view them in Design Mode. When I click on them, only the XMLS appear and I am not sure how to resolve this in VS 2012 ?
In a version of Visual Studio that includes SQL Server Report Services, create a new Report Server Project.
In the new Report Server Project, right-click the project node in the Solution Explorer and choose "Add" > "Existing Item...". Then browse to and select the RDL file. Once it is in a Report Server Project, you can right-click the report and choose "View Designer" to see it in Design View. By default, it ought to open in Design View anyway.
If the file is not part of a Report Server Project, you'll only be able to view the XML text. Depending upon the Version of Visual Studio you may (or may not) get XML highlighting and intellisense.
Rename report as '.rdlc' it will open in design mode in Visual studio 2012
In Visual Studio 2015:
First make sure you have installed Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools, then rename your reports to .rdls, right click on reports > Open With > Report Designer
If you are not able to create / add Report Server Project download and install Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools - Business Intelligence for Visual Studio 2012 from the location here (if you VS is 2012). Then create an new report server Reproting server project project Report Server Project and do as "add Existing Item" as my RDL report which need to be opened and go for design view. Then it will open the report in design mode.
You are missing Report Template in visual studio
Got to Control Panel->Programs->Programs and Features.
Select you Visual Studio Version, right click and 'Change'.
The Visual Studio Setup splashscreen should appear, Click on Modify at the bottom left, and then under 'Windows and Web Development' select Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools. The Reporting option should then appear in your installed updates.
After installing Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools, you would need to install Report Viewer for Visual Studio 2017 (or which ever version you are using)... that worked for me from link below:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/SqlServer/en-US/99b217d0-63b2-48a7-bfe0-423e56963e21/rdlc-report-designer-in-visual-studio-community-2015?forum=visualstudiogeneral
You can force open it by Right click on RDL file and click on View Designer to see the RDL in design mode.
Once you have the needed extensions (Microsoft Reporting Services, Report Designer) installed and everything updated, what worked for me was to open the .rptproj project, and then open the needed .rdl.
When using Visual Studio to edit Reporting Services *.rdl files, the default designer used is from the "Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Designers" installed product.
When viewing the RDL code, this code is displayed as plain text and I want to take advantage of the XML Editor in visual studio.
Linking the *.rdl extension to the XML editor in Tools>Options>Text Editor>File Extension has the nasty side effect that while the rdl is now shown in the XML editor, the original report designer completely disappears.
Is there some other way to do this?
thanks
For any file you can click the arrow on the size of the open button in the open file dialog and select open with... From there you can select the XML editor. There are some other useful open with items in there as well.
You should be able to view and modify the XML by doing a view source on the RDL file. That way you'll still be able to use the designer when needed.
It would seem that the Report Designer for Visual Studio 2005 did not provide XML Editor support when you click "View Source"; where the 2008 version does.
While "solved", this is just a little inconvenient when you still need to develop RDL in 2005 compatibility mode.
I want to create the report in my application using the reportViewer control.
I have added the ReportViewer control to WindowsForm from the toolbox. From the smart tag I, I selected the option Design a New Report. When I click on the design a new report, I am getting a .rdlc report, but I want to design it using a Wizard. I am not getting the Wizard can anyone tell me how to get the wizard so that I can design the report in simple manner.
Please help me out in getting the wizard.
Thanks in advance!
As far as I know, there is no wizard for creating reports under Visual Studio 2005.
Sorry - your just going to have to cope with the WYSIWYG editor provided.