"Report Data Pane" Missing in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Integrated Shell - visual-studio

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.

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where are visual studio 2017 dialog editor tools and controls?

I'm a complete newbie to Visual Studio 2017 and now need to update a old windows application. I down loaded VS 2017 community, found my .RC files and used it to open one of my dialog designs. It displays correctly but my problem is how do I get the VS to display the tools such as grid lines, alignment tools, etc? And how do I display the menu of the various controls (boxes and items) that one can add to the dialog design?
Those are in the toolbox pane/sidebar/thingie on the side. If you don't see it, go to the View menu and select "Toolbox" to turn it on.

Stop visual studio opening layout page everytime I refresh mvc web app

I'm using Visual Studio 2015.
If you create a new MVC project with all the basics it gives you (home controller, account controller, etc..), then press F5 to start it, visual studio shows the "_layout.cshtml" page in a preview window.
This gets rather frustrating if you're trying to make "on-the-fly" changes to a specific view, press F5 to refresh and see your changes, then alt-tab back to visual studio, only for it to have auto-previewed the layout page again.
How do you turn this feature off?
In Visual Studio, you should disable the checkbox for 'Enable browser link'.
I was able to reproduce on a new install. For me, the offender was "Web Essentials" extension. Try to disable and restart VS.
Also, it only happens with Edge's developer tools open. Haven't seen this with Firefox nor Chrome.
This is caused by the F12 Developer Tools where the page of the selected element in the DOM Explorer/Elements tab is automatically opened and synchronized in Visual Studio.
If you want to keep the Browser Link feature enabled, the F12 Developer Tools window open, and not lose your currently focused tab in Visual Studio, here's a work-around:
1. Right-click on the _Layout.cshtml tab in Visual Studio and select New Vertical Tab Group.
If you already have a tab group open, select Move to Next Tab Group.
2. Resize the splitter control of the tab group so that the tab group is barely visible.
3. Repeat these steps for all other files that automatically open in Visual Studio which disrupt your workflow.
I am unable to replicate your exact problem, but the following should disable the preview tab:
Type "preview" into Quick Launch
Select "Environment --> Tabs and Windows"
Disable "Allow new files to be opened in the preview tab"

Visual Studio 2010 Toolbar Menu

can someone help me to find missing "Data" menu from toolbar in VS 2010?
I also cannot run tsql code as Connect button after right-clicking the code is somehow not showing up. Visual Studio was installed as part of SQL Server 2012 Developer Edition
thank you very much
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It appears the data menu is being phased out (I'm still seeing the Data menu in VS 2010 Express, but it seems that it's gone not only in your scenario but with VS 2012). The two items in the menu, Show Data Sources and Add New Data Source... can be reached by using the keyboard shortcut Shift+Alt+D, or quite possibly in your version, under the View menu -> Other Windows -> Data Sources.
Main source: here.

Visual Studio 2012 change web browser

If I click control-click a hyperlink in the text editor, it opens the URL in a new Visual Studio tab. I would rather the link open outside Visual Studio in my system's default web browser (happens to be Google Chrome). How can I arrange this?
I'm talking about hyperlinks in code comments.
I am using Visual Studio 2012. I found a similar question dated 2009, however the accepted answer (a macro) doesn't work in Visual Studio 2012.
Frustratingly, this isn't possible in Visual Studio 2012 or 2013.
Bug reported to developers at http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2723548-open-links-in-an-actual-browser Please add your vote!
There is an extension Open in External Browser.
I'm using Visual Studio 2013 Professional. It works for me.
To install:
Go to "Tools" - "Extension and Updates..."
Choose "Online" - "Visual Studio Gallery" on left pane
Type in search field "open in external browser"
Click "Install"
It seems that it is not possible (except if your default browser is IE, so you would not know the difference).
As Anand wrote above, you could ctrl + right click on the link and then select open link in external window (you cannot do that on the start page, only on an opened webpage) but it still opens the window in IE no matter what your default browser is.
Even if you go to TOOLS --> Options --> Environment --> Web Browser, you will notice that it indicated that IE and the internal VS web browser are siblings.
So just copy the URL from the address bar and paste it to your default browser (it's not too much trouble in my opinion).
In VS 2012 Professional, on the toolbar next to the run debug icon, is the word 'Start' which can be expanded. When expanded you have the option to 'Open with...' and you can select the browser to open the web project up in. It does not run the debugger, it only opens the website in the selected browser. (toolbar > Start (expanded) > Open with...)
You can use the default browser switcher application if you are using Visual Studio 2010 for this kind of situation:
On your tool bar menu select "TOOLS"
Then from options choose "EXTENSION Manager"
It will open the extension manager window in the left hand side there are options choose the "Online Gallery" option
In Online Gallery search for "WoVS Default Browser Switcher"
Download it and Install it
After download restart VS
Hope this works best for you
I found a way to change the default browser for all actions in Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web. It's documented here:
By default, Visual Studio uses your default browser to test pages. To use a different browser or Page Inspector, right-click [an .aspx] page in [the] Solution Explorer and then click [...] Browse With [, which] lets you select a browser from a list, add new browsers to the list, or set one as the default browser. (The default browser setting here applies only to the Visual Studio environment and not to Windows.)
This also changes the default browser for F5'ing an MVC project, because I'm used to closing IE to stop debugging. When I let Visual Studio use my system's default browser, I first have to switch back to it from my browser to stop debugging, because closing the browser tab doesn't.
Unfortunately it still doesn't open links in comments in a browser.
I don't actually know what you mean under hyperlink, but you can easily make VS2012 working with another browser by simply.. uninstalling IE9 (Control Panel->Software->Windows components->bye bye IE9).
Well I found a workaround that is not so clean :P
Add a .html file to your project
Open the new .html file and click inside the editor.
Now Goto 'File' > 'Browse With...' from the Visual Studio Top Menu.
In the 'Browse With' Window, select the desired browser and click
the 'Set as Default' button.
Click the Browse button to set the new default selection.
This is what you have to do:
Go to the standard menu toolbar
Click on 'Add or Remove Buttons'
Tick the 'Debug Target' option
VS 2012 -->> File -->> Browse With -- >> Select Browser -->> Click on "set Default" Button -->> Now Click "Browse" Button
Go thru this setting...
Hope this will help you

What happened to the Members/Methods combobox in Visual Studio 2010?

In Visual Studio 2008, I can see a combo box containing the members/methods defined in my class at the top of the code window:
However, I cannot see this in Visual Studio 2010! Was it removed? Can I get it back?
It's still there, you must have just inadvertently turned it off. To turn it back on, follow these easy steps:
From the "Tools" menu, select "Options".
Expand the "Text Editor" heading.
Select your language of choice (e.g., C# or VB.NET).
Check the box labeled "Navigation bar".

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