Visual Studio is not opening report definition

Jose Esquivel 0 Reputation points
2025-10-13T15:43:48.4233333+00:00

Visual Studio 2022 Report designer is not showing reports created with Visual Studio 2019

Developer technologies | C#
Developer technologies | C#
An object-oriented and type-safe programming language that has its roots in the C family of languages and includes support for component-oriented programming.
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  1. ava lynn 80 Reputation points
    2025-12-03T03:42:51.17+00:00

    This happens because VS 2022 needs the report designer extension installed.

    Try this:

    Go to Extensions → Manage Extensions.

    Search for Microsoft RDLC Report Designer.

    Install it and restart Visual Studio.

    After that, the reports from VS 2019 should open normally.

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