A couple of us here in the office installed Visual Studio 2010 which after full installation we saw included visual studio 2008.
Now when we attempt to open 2008 projects in this edition of 2008 it fails with a long message about not supporting the project extension of .csproj.
A bit more checking into it I see that there are no csharp or visual basic extensions installed for this edition of visual studio but mainly sql extensions.
Can someone confirm if this edition of visual studio 2008 can be used for regular application (console, web, windows) development (if so how?) or if its only suited for sql development?
------------------- Visual Studio 2008 (incl with 2010 Ultimate) About Info -->
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Version 9.0.30729.1 SP
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 3.5 SP1
Installed Edition: IDE Standard
-- several host fixes removed from list.
SQL Server Analysis Services
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services Designer
Version 10.0.5500.0
SQL Server Integration Services
Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services Designer
Version 10.0.5500.0 ((Katmai_PCU_Main).110921-2358 )
SQL Server Reporting Services
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Designers
Version 10.0.5500.0
VS 2010 and VS 2008 UE include all regular applications. VS2010 also installed 2008 folder Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0.. Just simply use 2010 and you'll be fine. It supports all versions.
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Is it possible to open a SSIS solution using Microsoft's free tools (Visual Studio Team Explorer and SQL Server Data Tools) or does it require a full installation of Visual Studio?
I am trying to do so with just the free tools and am getting an error saying that "this versino of Visual Studio is unable to open the following projects" then another one saying the solution I have opened is under source control but not currently configured for integrated source control in visual studio.
We have other users who use the full version of Visual Studio 2017 and it works fine so I am wondering if this is just a limitation of the free products offered by Microsoft.
To edit SQL Server 2005 SSIS packages, you need Visual Studio 2005 and installation of Business Intelligence Designer Studio, BIDS. This required a license, developer edition was sufficient, to access the tooling.
SQL Server 2008 & SQL Server 2008 R2 would install into Visual Studio 2008. This too required a SQL Server license as the media only existed on the server media.
SQL Server 2012 would install into both Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2012. This was delivered in both physical media installations and downloadable tooling which was rebranded to SQL Server Data Tools- BI Edition, now just SQL Server Data Tools and the components were just licensed via click through agreement.
SQL Server 2014 installs into Visual Studio 2013 and was now only available through the download of SSDT.
SQL Server 2016 added a new twist into the mix. It installed into Visual Studio 2015 but it could now create/edit/target SQL Server 2012, 2014 and 2016 packages. This was huge as until this point, as a consultant I would have required 5 different versions of the "same" program on my machine. Now I'd only need 3.
SQL Server 2017 installs SSDT in both Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017.
I assume SQL Server 2019 will similarly target VS 2017 and VS 109.
Across all of these versions, if you didn't have Visual Studio installed, the installer would install the Visual Studio shell on your machine so that the project templates would work.
Last I knew, neither Visual Studio Community Edition nor VS Code will work with the SSDT templates so be sure and open the correct product to work with SSIS projects (.dtproj)
The warning/error about "under source control but not currently configured" smells like something is awry with how you have the TFS hook installed but I can't comment on that.
Download and install SSDT 2017 for Visual Studio
You can verify the status of your SSDT installation for Visual Studio by going to the Help, About Microsoft Visual Studio menu and looking for "SQL Server Integration Services." With ... 2017? you can now do a piecemeal install and only pick SQL Server Data Tools (database projects) or SSAS/SSIS/SSRS. Previously, the SSDT-BI install was trio of SS_S and SSDT (no BI) was the database projects.
Previous answer on where SSDT-BI is
You have at lease two options:
Use Visual Studio Community Edition together with SSDT. Still, you have to check its License terms with your Legal department - it might be not legal to use Community Edition in Enterprise.
Use Visual Studio Isolated Shell together with SSDT. More instructions on how to install it. As far as I know, it is legal to use it for debugging.
The VS Isolated Shell is usually installed with SQL Server 2014/16.
I've asked this question over in the SuperUser site, but thought I'd ask it here to due to the expertise of so many SO users.
I've recently installed Visual Studio 2010 Professional (for a university project). We have to design a dummy interface for a system modelling scrum management (i.e. to allow users to create and plan agile projects). We don't need to do any real coding, just design the interface - however, if we choose, we can add in a little C# (we've only programmed in Java and we are at an elementary level, which is why there is so little coding).
I installed the Professional edition of Visual Studio, asking for just the C# package. The program ended up installing all of the following:
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Data-Tier Application Framework
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Data-Tier Application Project
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Objects
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Objects (x64)
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Transact-SQL Language Service
Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 ENU
Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 x64 ENU
Microsoft SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard 1.4
Microsoft SQL Server System CLR Types
Microsoft SQL Server System CLR Types (x64)
Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 SP1 (x64)
Microsoft Sync Framework SDK v1.0 SP1
Microsoft Sync Framework Services v1.0 SP1 (x64)
Microsoft Sync Services for ADO.NET v2.0 SP1 (x64)
Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 Object Model - ENU
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.4148
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.4974
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x64 Runtime - 10.0.30319
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x86 Runtime - 10.0.30319
Microsoft Visual Studio ADO.NET Entity Framework Tools
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional - ENU
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime (x64)
Microsoft Visual Studio Macro Tools
I've heard that I can't get rid of the SQL Server Compact as it is needed for Visual Studio to run. I'm also aware that the Visual Studio 2010 Professional - ENU IS the actual program. However, after these, bearing in mind my needs for the program, what can I uninstall?
I'll answer my own question. Someone actually left a comment on what to do, but they seem to have deleted it. I don't remember who it was - apologies to them.
I was using Visual Studio 2010 Professional as we got it free through our university's connection to the Microsoft Developer Network.
However, a free version of this software without a lot of what was unnecessary for me exists - Visual Studio Express. It can be found at:
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/visual-studio-express-products
We would like to start using SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services in our company, but we are using SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Database Engine on a standalone server and have Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate on our programming PCs.
From what I understand, we need Visual Studio 2008 for BIDS to install. Is it necessary that the SQL Server 2008 Database Engine AND Visual Studio 2008 be on THE SAME machine to install BIDS?
Can I use any of the Visual Studio 2008 Express versions?
Just to clarify, you don't need to install any version of Visual Studio 2008 before installing BIDS.
When you install the SQL Server 2008 R2 client tools on your PC, this will include a version of Visual Studio 2008 with the business intelligence components installed.
From memory the requirement for Visual Studio 2008 is due to an incompatibility between Visual Studio 2010 and the Integration Services project type.
Yes, you can use Express Visual Studio
No, you don't need to install the DB engine. When you run the install, BIDS is listed under "client components" (or similar). The SQL Server install routine will install VS Express for you too.
I have been unable to locate any information on compatibility with Visual Studio 2003 or 2005. I currently have TFS 2010 working correctly with Visual Studio 2008, but we have some developers with Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 instances.
To use VS 2003 you'll have to install the MSSCCI provider.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/bce06506-be38-47a1-9f29-d3937d3d88d6
"Kinda"
You'll need to install a Forward Compatibility Update and even then not all features of 2010 are supported. You can find out more on the Team Foundation Server blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/team_foundation/pages/compat-matrix-for-2010-rtm-team-foundation-server-to-team-explorer-2008-and-2005.aspx
I know there is an Issue using SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services and Visual Studio 2005, but does this error still exsist with Visual Studio 2008 and 2010?
If so, is there any work-aground to get this working?
I do know that SSIS 2005 requires VS 2005 and that SSIS 2008 requires VS 2008. So if you have upgraded your SQL Server 2005 client tool installation to 2008, there is no way (AFAIK) to create SSIS 2005 projects.
My guess is that you will see the same issues with SSRS as with SSIS.