Visual Studio not picking up change made in stored procedure - sql-server

I am using Visual Studio Community 2019 and have a stored procedure on a database in SQL Server 2017. I have modified the procedure to change one of the JOINed tables to a different one and this reflects when I execute the stored procedure.
However, when I run a report using this procedure within Visual Studio, the old data appears. I have tried refreshing the fields in the dataset, as well as closing and opening the report and Visual Studio itself.
Is there some way for the report to pick up the change that I'm missing?
Thanks,
Rob

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