Report Designer is missing in Visual Studio 2015 enterprise

_{Thursday, March 31, 2016 10:06 PM}

I have installed Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise Edition Update. I am trying to create new report(.rdlc) from Add New Item Dialog. But I am not able to View Reporting Template option in my Add New Item Wizard.

I tried the following steps:

1. Open Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features, and select the entry for your version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2015.

2. Click the "Change" button on the top bar above the program list.

3. Press the "Modify" button.

4. Select Windows and Web Development > Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools, and check the box next to it.

5. Press the "Update" button on the lower-right hand side of the window.

Even after following these steps I am not able to View the reporting template option. Is there any other method to add this template.

_{Friday, April 1, 2016 2:59 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Dear Chetan Prabhu,

Welcome to the MSDN forum.

The Report Designer is part of the Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools, and since you already installed the Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools, but you still cannot find the reporting template, please follow the steps as below:

1. Confirm SQL Server Data Tools installed successfully: go to Control Panel—Programs and Features—VS enterprise 2015 with update 1—change—modify, and confirm the checkbox of Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools already selected.

2. Open VS 2015, go to Tools—Extensions and Updates—Updates, see if it has update of SQL Server Data Tools or not, if have, please update it. On my side, I install the update of SQL Server Data Tools, then I can see the reporting template as below:

3. if the template still missing, please run the command: devenv /InstallVSTemplates in the developer command prompt of VS 2015.

Best regards,

Sara

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