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.
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Our project is on Visual Studio Team Services (was TFS Online) and we are using visual studio 2013, but I dont seem to have any connection from Solution Explorer to Team Services.
I have no problem opening Team Explorer-> Source Control Explorer and Get Latest, but when I open the .sln file in visual studio, it seems disconnected to Team Services in the sense that I cant find menu items like "Get Latest", "Check out" and so on. When I create new items in VS they aren't added to Team Services, I have to add them by using Source Control Explorer.
My mappings seems fine, they point to the folders where I have my source code locally.
So, how to I connect my VS to Visual Studio Team Services?
Under Source Control Explorer in VS, double click the .sln file, then go to Solution Explorer to check whether the files under the solution is source controlled.
Additionally, you can go to File--Source Control to see whether you can see "Get latest version" or "Check Out for Edit".
Open the File - Source Control - Manage Source Control and click Bind for each project in the solution.
Also make sure that Team Foundation Server is selected as the version control tools in Tools - Options - Source Control.
I think there are some function lost in the VS. After I right click on the Server Explorer, there only exist "Copy", "Refresh" and "Properties".
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I think you no need to right click on the table name, should right click on db name "user-pc\localdb......" and connect
Alternate solution:
Download SQL Server Data Tools in visual studio.
After Installation you can see "Server object explorer" - Same Like "Server explorer" in your vs.
Now, you can view your database and all other properties.
Link :
Download Link
Note: You may not find SQL Server Data Tools For 2010. (Available sources are 2012 and 2013)
Still look at this, Step wise solution
I am new to VS.
Went to Extensions and installed JSLint.NET, it is also enabled.
But I get no item under Tools to configure or use it?
JSLint.NET is configured on per project basis. Right click on your project and you should see a menu choice for JSLint.NET Project Settings.
You can see an example of this on the Visual Studio gallery page for the extension.
JSLint.NET Extension
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.
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.