When I open a XSD file in the designer the file loads but does not display properly. I can scroll the window like the file is there but the 'Please wait while loading...' dialog does not disappear. If a table is clicked in the designer it is show and I can make changes. If VS is minimized then maximized, whatever is displayed in the XSD Designer until a table is clicked in the designer. I need this fixed so any information will be greatly appreciated.
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I have a project in Visual Studio 2017 (Professional) in which I'm editing an SSRS .rdlc file.
I have it such that the default editor for the file is, as I'd want it to be, the Report Designer.
However, I'm often editing the source XML for that file. So, I'm often right-clicking the file and selecting View Code. When I do that, it opens the file up in a standard Text editor rather than the XML editor.
What I'd like to have happen is:
Have Report Designer be the standard default editor.
Have XML Editor be the default editor for when I want to view code.
Is there any way to set that up to be the case (just change the default View Code editor)?
Right click on your report and open with it will show you something like this
and you can choose what you want
I want to open a repx file with a designer.
(but now, I only see the code behind)
I have installed Visual Studio 2013 and DevExpress.
I just want to add 3 paramters to a printer lable.
The existing file was made with XtraReport - maybe that helps.
Thx.
First, open or create a blank XtraReport file in design mode in Visual Studio. Then, click on the Tasks tag on the upper-left corner of the report design surface. From the pop-up menu, click on "Open/Import" and select a .repx file.
I'm maintainig an old MFC application with Visual Studio 2013. Building the application works fine, but I'm unable to use the dialog editor.
When I open a dialog from the resource view, it displays correctly, I can click on the existing items, view their properties, move them etc.
But when I open the toolbox via the View-Toolbox command (Ctrl+Alt+X), all I get is an empty toolbox as displayed below:
Right click on the toolbar and "Reset Toolbox" doesn't change anything
Right click and then "Show all" shows an impressive list of tools, among those there is the Dialog Editor, but all items are inactive as shown in the picture below:
On the other hand when I create a new MFC project from scratch, the toolbox containing the dialog items works fine.
Does anybody have an idea what could be wrong?
FYI: in the meantime I use Visual Studio 6 (yes) for editing the resources.
There are two typical work arounds to get the toolbox back in Visual Studio. One is to reset the toolbox as you've tried. The other is to delete the “.tbd” files in your corresponding C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0 folder.
I have an RDLC file that opens as text only (xml) not in the designer,
how can I force it back to default to open with the designer. (I need to go back and forth).
I swear I saw this on Stack already, but for the google of me I can't find it.
This problem comes when we change the default settings for any file type in visual studio.
Follow the steps given below to fix such issues:
You can right click on the file!
Select open with
Click on Report Designer.
Click on 'Set as Default'
Click OK
You should be all set now. It will now always open in Report Designer.
I just had this issue...
I resolved by adding a new Report to the project, which opened in the designer.
After the designer opened correctly, the existing reports also opened in the designer as not as XML.
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.