I have an .rdl file that I need to open in Visual Studio. When I try to open this file, I got an XML file. However, I am unable to see the designer format.
I don't know which version of Visual Studio is used to create this .rdl file.
Is it possible to open a random .rdl file in Visual Studio and see the designer format and, if so, how can I do that?
Correct, the Report Definition Language is just XML. And, as with any other file, you can just open it (File/Open/File...) in Visual Studio, just like in a text editor. In order to see a designer you need to give Visual Studio a bit of context about what sort of file it is by making it part of a Report Server Project.
Install SSDT for Visual Studio if you haven't already done so
Create a new project using the 'Report Server Project' template
Copy/move the .rdl file(s) you have into the folder for the newly created project (eg ..\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\My Report Project\My Report Project)
Use the "Add Existing Item..." context menu option in Solution Explorer to add the .rdl to the project
Open report designer by double-clicking the newly added report project item(s)
For opening RDL file in designer make sure you have "
Microsoft Reporting Services Projects" Installed.
Refer this : https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ProBITools.MicrosoftReportProjectsforVisualStudio
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.
In my case, I was opening the folder and not the project file.
Once I opened the project directly, the reports were opening with the report editor, not the xml editor.
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I've made a custom project template and when I create a new project in Visual Studio using this template I want to open a file(which belongs to the template) into the Visual Studio's document window(code editor window/whatever...) right after the project is loaded.
If, for example, I create a C# - .NET Framework - Console Application the file Program.cs is opened after the project is fully created and loaded into Visual Studio.
When I use my custom template, no file is opened and the document window is empty.
I would like to achieve the same behavior as it happens for the built-in templates and have a file be opened when the project is loaded
I suspect I would have to edit the .vstemplate file and add some specific tag that would instruct Visual Studio to do that, but I can't find anything useful in the microsoft documentation relating vstemplate element.
So we have a unique situation. I have 2300+ RDLs that we have in TFS that our team works on. These are deployed to 100+ different folders on the SSRS Server, and must stay that way as each folder is secured with it's own AD Group so users can't see each others folders/reports.
The problem with Visual Studio is that each folder has to be it's own project to manage the RDLs in Visual Studio. So my workaround is that I have a project in VS but then made my own folder with all of these RDL's and their own subfolder via Source Code Explorer. So when I try to edit the rdl with Visual studio it just opens it as xml and not the report designer. My work-around is that we associate the .rdl file with Report Builder, but I'd rather just use Visual Studio.
Any way to get VS to open the report designer this way? I am only interested in editing the rdl's this way, not using VS To deploy the reports.
You could try VS extension Microsoft Reporting Services Projects, which can be downloaded from website below:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ProBITools.MicrosoftReportProjectsforVisualStudio
Or try the solution in case How to open .rdl file in visual studio :
In order to see a designer you need to give Visual Studio a bit of
context about what sort of file it is by making it part of a Report
Server Project.
Install SSDT for Visual Studio if you haven't already done so
Create a new project using the 'Report Server Project' template
Copy/move the .rdl file(s) you have into the folder for the newly created project (eg ..\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\My Report
Project\My Report Project)
Use the "Add Existing Item..." context menu option in Solution Explorer to add the .rdl to the project
Open report designer by double-clicking the newly added report project item(s)
There is one tool available in market IDSNext-Gen. The company name is Agnisys Inc.
I'm working in Visual Studio 2017. I wanted to open a folder of files, so I clicked File -----> Open ------> Folder and selected the folder containing all my files.
When I view the Solution Explorer, I can see all of my programming files. However, I am unable to build my project and run it. Is there any way to build and run a folder in Visual Studio? I've tried selecting the .cpp file that I wanted to build specifically, but there's still no build/debug option.
In fact, under the Debug menu, the F5 Start option is grayed out. Any solutions?
I think you have to create a Visual Studio project first, and then add those files to the project. What you are doing right now is just using VS as an editor and viewer.
The System power is gone while i was saving the project now there is a error
there is no code in its code file and gives the error when I view source code in Visual Studio 2010
If you have any recent build and you have access to assemblies of that build, maybe you could just use a reflector and extract your code from there
or
Provided you do not have a large number of source files, the fastest way is probably to just delete the .csproj and create a new one. Then add all the source code back in manually. If you create the project file in the same location you can check the "Show All Files" in the Solution Explorer and then right click on the source files and select "Include in Project".
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How can I recover a corrupt .csproj file in Visual Studio 2010?
The normal answer would be to do a "get latest" from source control, but I'd guess you're not using source control, even though you can get a hosted edition of TFS for free
Visual Studio seems to consist of a single solution file (*.sln) along with one or more project files (a C# project would have the *.csproj extension).
I have been playing around with a console application that parses existing directory entries to create solution files with the associated project files.
It works, but every time I run into a new project here at work I find myself spending a week or more debugging my console project so that it can churn out a solution for that particular work project.
Is there something out there already that can create a VS solution out of an existing file structure?
As you can tell from my screen capture below, these projects are nested very deep, so it would take a very long time to do this with the apps folder below with the "by mouse" technique in the Visual Studio IDE.
I created the custom console application that is posted in this post:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/22153536/153923
I invite others to contribute how they approached this solution, though.
So, I found out today that this feature already exists in Visual Studio.
Link 1: How to: Create a Project from Existing Code Files
Link 2: How to: Create a Project from Existing Code Files
Basically, though, it says this (just in case the MSDN links get changed or deleted):
You can create a Visual Studio project from an existing app—for example, an app that you obtained from an online source. Project and solution files are created on your computer and the other relevant files are added. A project can be created from Visual C++, Visual Basic, or Visual C# code files.
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We recommend that you determine the trustworthiness of existing code files before you import them into Visual Studio, because Visual Studio will execute some of the code in a fully trusted process when you open the newly created project.
To create a project from existing code files
On the menu bar, choose File, New, Project From Existing Code.
The Create New Project from Existing Code Files wizard opens.
Use the wizard to specify the details of the existing code files that will be added to the project and the application that will be created when you build the project.
Another good answer was given by cbp in Visual Studio: Create a web application from existing code:
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OK I figured it out. It's weird, but the following steps will work:
Open fresh copy of Visual Studio
File->New Project, select Web Application
Use the following settings:
Name: Website (this is the name of the existing folder with the website files in it)
Location: C:\Temp\ (anywhere will do for now)
Solution Name: TheProject (name of the existing project's root folder)
Check "Create directory for solution"
Delete the auto-created Default, Global and Web.config files
Save All and close Visual Studio
In Windows Explorer, copy the new folder on top of the existing folder so that the files are merged.
Double click on the sln file to open Visual Studio again.
Select "Show all files" (at the top of Solution Explorer)
Right click on any files or folders you want to add and select Include in Project.
Great idea!