Folks.
I am responsible for converting a VS2008 Report Model Project (.SMDLPROJ) into its "equivalent" form under VS2017. Obviously, Report Models are no longer supported under SSDT for VS2017 (otherwise, I wouldn't be posting to this web site). If someone could point me in the right direction it would be most appreciated.
Thank you.
Actually SQL Server 2017 AND 2019 still support report models, BUT you need to deploy them from within a visual studio project (get BIDS from a SQL Server 2008 R2 installation). Trying to upload a .smdl file will fail.
To answer my own question these links should help:
Report model replacement in SQL Server 2016
Report Model SMDL Alternatives in SQL Server 2012
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I'd like to set LocalDB 2016 as pre-requisite when publishing my WPF application. But when I check default pre-requisites in Project Properties, only one available is for SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB.
Any idea why there is no newer one, since I'm using newest possible Visual Studio 2017? Thank you!
From the few resources available i've found this post by #PaulBrewer, which saved the day. Since it's easier to just download a working solution, i've uploaded my own custom MSSSQL Express LocalDB (2016) Bootstrapper/Manifest for anyone to use. Just follow instructions in readme.md:
https://github.com/igormf/SqlLocalDB2016-Bootstrapper
I am a freelancer. At a client's place, SQL Server is 2014, but the only DTSX tool is BIDS 9, which I would like to remove to install something a bit more up-to-date.
I am a bit confused by some pages telling that SSDT is for VS 2012 or 2013, and that SSDT and SSDT-BI are 2 different things.
So what should I install ? Can I use VS 2015 community + an extra package ?
I would be delighted to have the proper links, because I found MS site is also a bit confusing on the subject, and I would not like to make a mistake on this.
Thanks.
This page has a pretty clear description.
SSDT contains templates for building relational databases for the RDBMS and Azure SQL Database
SSDT-BI contains project templates for SSAS models, SSRS reports, and
SSIS packages.
There are two version of SSDT-BI. One for VS2012 and one for VS2013.
For SQL Server 2012 or 2014, you can use either SSDT-BI for Visual
Studio 2012 or SSDT-BI for Visual Studio 2013. The only difference is
between the two is the Visual Studio version.
You can use the download links on the page to get the right tools for the VS version that one plan on using.
I have a new laptop with Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise and SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.1 installed on it. I want to develop SSIS & SSRS projects using this setup, but I am having a hard time getting the Business Intelligence templates to show up in VS.
I installed the SQL Server Data Tools for Visual Studio 2015 from here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/mt186501.aspx
This installation seemed to work, but the BI templates still did not appear in VS.
After this was installed, I started up the SQL 2016 installation again to see if I could add this as a feature in the installation. It was not an option in the Feature Selection area. I tried both the "Perform new installation of SQL" and "Add feature to an existing instance" options during the setup wizard.
What am I missing here? In doing some research, it seems like these BI templates should be available for VS 2015. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. Thank you!
Go to Tools > Extensions and Updates... Under the Updates tab, you'll find Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) Update.
SSDT is updated separately from SQL Server itself. In the past, SSDT BI was a separate project as well. Integrating both toolsets is a work in progress. The latest SSDT version is the November 2015 preview which supports SSIS, SSAS, SSRS for SQL Server 2016 preview but only SSAS, SSRS for previous versions.
SSDT doesn't actually require SQL Server, only Visual Studio, and will install no matter which version of SQL Server you have installed (if any).
I found the solution in another forum. This issue has to do with using the "preview" version of SQL 2016. Use this link to download the SSDT for this version:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/mt429383
Hope this helps someone else...
In VS 2015:
Select Tools -> Extensions & Updates
A console opens. On the LHS, you will see 3 tabs - Installed, Online & Updates
Select Updates -> Product Updates -> Choose Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) Update.
I'm beginner in programming, and trying to make a project with Entity Framework. I'm using MS VS 2013 Express and SQL Server 2012 Express, and a tutorial from Microsoft.
When I try to "Generate Database from Model" I expect to see a hightlighted code and special tools to work with it:
But I have no any of them in my VS 2013.
What am doing wrong, and what should I do next?
I just found a solution for my problem on my own. I deleted and reinstalled VS 2013, and now it contains SQL Server features. Maybe the problem was in a proper order of installation of VS and SQL Server. So, firstly we install SQL Server and then - Visual Studio.
Also, before it I tried to use SQL Server 2014 with Visual Studio 2013 and it raised more errors.
I hope somebody will find it useful.
Has anyone found a good workaound for opening or editing an SSRS 2005 report project with Visual Studio 2008 yet?
Will the SQL server 2008 tools be the migration path for these report projects in the future? I really dont want to have to keep VS2005 installed forever just to update SSRS reports.
After an upgrade to VS2008 an existing solution that contains a VS2005 SSRS reports project will not open. From what I understand the SQL Server 2005 tools dont know about VS2008 so they will not integrate into the IDE. So currently I switch back to VS2005 for any updates to this project, and get an error loading project message everytime I open the solution in 2008.
EDIT on solution:
I was able to install the shared component for BDIS from the SQL2008 disc and am now able to open and update my SSRS 2005 .rdl project items within VS2008.
Note to others:
If you edit your SSRS 2005 reports in VS2008 and re-save you will not be able to edit them in VS2005 anymore, or deploy them to a 2005 server. They are up-converted to 2008 report files.
I don't fully understand what kind of "workaround" you want.....
In order to create and edit SSRS report projects in Visual Studio, you basically have two options:
install the "Business Intelligence Development Studio" components from your SQL Server 2008 DVD - this gives you the full suite of visual designers and everything to create and edit RDL files in Visual Studio
learn the RDL spec by heart and open the RDL files as XML and just manually edit those - joking, of course - this is not really an option, is it?
So - what exactly do you want to "work around" then??