Designing Reports in Visual Studio 2013

Question

I used the reportviewer control, including the included report designer in VS 2005/2008. Worked great! However, when porting my applications over to the latest VS 2013 and getting through the reportviewer reference issues, I have discovered that I no longer have the ability to create and/or modify my existing reports. They running fine. However, there seems to be no way to modify or create new reports within VS 2013. Obviously I'm missing something! I know that there has to be a super secret code or something. If anyone can shed any light on this and direct me to the right answer, I cetainly would appreciate it!

 Thanks!

Answer 1

Which edition of VS 2013?

In Community Edition, place a Report Viewer control on a form, then click on the small triangle at the top right of the control border. Select Design a New Report.

Answer 2

I'm using VS 2013 Express. The problem is that nothing happens when I 'Select Design a New Report. In VS 2005, I could double click the report file and it what come up in the report designer. Now, it comes up in xml. I've been able to use VS 2005 to modify current reports, but this is no good for future programming needs. I also do not have a ReportViewer tab in the Tools tab which makes me believe that something is not installed or referenced correctly.

Answer 3

"I'm using VS 2013 Express."

Which edition?

I suggest you download and install the free Community Edition of VS 2013 (which includes both the Winforms and web versions of the ReportViewer control), here:

http://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs

This may also be pertinent to your question:

http://forums.asp.net/t/1960068.aspx?How+to+install+Report+viewer+to+VS+Express+2013+for+Web

also the answer here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20094181/microsoft-report-viewer-object

Answer 4

Thanks for your response and help. However, I don't know that I'm describing the problem adequately. I am developing in VS 2013 Express using localdb as the database server. My project was originally developed in VS 2005. I have 6 reports that were developed utilizing the Report Designer embedded with VS 2005 ReportViewer controls. After converting the project to VS 2013, everything seems to work accordingly. All reports run during runtime without issues. However, there is no way to create new, or modify existing reports. When clicking the [Design New Report] menu item from the ReportViewer control that is placed on the form, nothing happens. No error, no nothing! I have tried the options listed above, several times, with no success! My next step is to downgrade to VS 2010 to see if it works there. One of the other developers has done this with success! I have done this on a Windows 10 laptop with success, as well. However, downgrading is only delaying the inevitable. Someday, this will need to work with VS 2013!