Adding SSDT BI Templates in Visual Studio 2015 - sql-server

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.

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Visual Studio 2017 does not have Business Intelligence Integration Services/Projects

I do not see an option to create an SSIS project using Visual Studio 2017.
VS2017 supports ssis or ssrs projects if you install SSDT for VS2017 here.
Click on the newly downloaded file and check SSIS or SSRS components that you required, as show in diagram :-
Once you have installed this, try opening ssis / ssrs project. I managed to open ssis developed on vs2010.
You should see these component installed. (reboot if you don't see them).
Try open your project again. If you get 'incompatible project' - right click on your project, select "reload project" (not reopen the solution)
Information on this will probably get outdated fast because Microsoft is running to complete its work on this, but as today, June 9th 2017, support to create SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) projects on Visual Studio 2017 is not available. So, you can't see this option because so far it doesn't exist yet.
Beyond that, even installing what is being called SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools) in VS 2017 installer (what seems very confusing from Microsoft's part, using a known name for a different thing, breaking the behavior we expect as users), you won't see SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) project templates as well.
Actually, the Business Intelligence group under the Installed templates on the New Project dialog won't be present at all.
You need to go to this page (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssdt/download-sql-server-data-tools-ssdt) and install two separate installers, one for SSAS and one for SSRS.
Once you install at least one of these components, the Business Intelligence group will be created and the correspondent template(s) will be available. But as today, there is no installer for SSIS, so if you need to work with SSIS projects, you need to keep using SSDT 2015, for now.
I havent tried this scenario yet - I was scared off by the (unanswered) comments below the GA announcement blog post:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ssdt/2017/04/19/announcing-the-general-availability-ga-release-of-ssdt-17-0-april-2017/
I'll be staying on VS15 for a while ...
Integration Services project templates are now available in the latest release of SSDT for Visual Studio 2017.
Note: if you have recently installed SSDT for Visual Studio 2017. You need to remove the Reporting Services and Analysis Services installations before you proceed with installing SSDT.
There is no BI project in Visual Studio. Youll need to download SSDT. SSDT 2017 works fine :)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssdt/download-sql-server-data-tools-ssdt
SSIS Integration with Visual Studio 2017 available from Aug 2017.
SSIS designer is now available for Visual Studio 2017! ARCHIVE
I installed in July 2018 and appears working fine. See Download link

DTSX and SQL Server 2014

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.

SSRS missing in Visual Studio 2015 (community & enterprise trial version) template

I tried to solve my problem by using community and enterprise (trial) version of Visual Studio 2015. Couldn't solve it. Hope somebody can help me.
I want to generate a report by using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). In some tutorial I see there are SSAS, SSRS & SSIS under templates | Business Intelligence when a new project is opened in Visual Studio. In my case, I don't see it as shown in the following picture:
If I check (my OS is Windows 10 64 bit) System Settings | System | App & features, I see SQL Server Data Tools 2015 is installed (strangely I have 2 SSDT) as seen in below.
I see similar problem (Missing Reporting Server templates in Visual Studio 2013 + Business Intelligence SSDT) for VS2013, in which the reporter has used 32 bit SSDT tools. Is this valid for VS2015 also? What I should do for VS2015?
I develop the SSRS and SSIS project in Visual studio 2012 and When i open it on visual Studio 2015. both project is not loaded. then I download the SSDT and updated Its start Working
I think this Link help You to find out Your Solution
ssdt bi for the visual studio 2015 stack over flow Answer
Install sql server enterprise or business intelligence ctp 3.3, install VS2015 professional and finally install the latest SSDT.
Uninstall previous SSDT installations.
Download SQL SERVER.
In Visual Studio go to Extensions and Updates and look for SQL SERVER DATA TOOLING. If the update doesn't appear, go to this page in the third point, download the setup for your regional settings.
If it doesn't work tell use what is the exact VS2015 version.

No SQL Server Data Tools in VS 2013 ultimate installed

I have no SQL Server Data Tool in Visual Studio 2013.
SSDT should be included in VS2013? Source
How can I install them?
I tried to install BI for VS 2013 but still don't have any SQL functions in VS.
Make sure Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools is checked when you install VS.
SQL tools like schema comparison are in SQL menu. SQL menu is not visible till any database project OR .scmp file OR file where its context is available is open.
For more details, refer:
http://pranavwithyou.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/schema-data-comparison-of-two-databases-with-visual-studio/
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Launch-2013/VS108
Update
Got this link on MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/hh297027
Download latest VS2013 Update 2 through extension update or by link http://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs
For SSDT-BI for VS 2013 install:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42313
after installation restart Visual studio.
Lets hope, it should work then.
I don't have SQL menu, however I found it in Tools -> SQL Server

SSDT Not Working In Visual Studio 2010 SP1

I'm running Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Premium on Windows 7, and am trying to create SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Reports. I've downloaded the new SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/hh297027 and installed/restarted. If I go into VS Help->About, I can see "Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools 10.3.20225.0" in the list of installed products. However, SSDT doesn't seem to be showing up in the "New Project" window, and if I try to open existing SSRS 2005 reports projects (created in BIDS/VS 2005) it says "'Reports.rptproj' cannot be opened because its project type (.rptproj) is not supported by this version of the application. To open it, please use a version that supports this type of project".
Am I incorrect in my impression that VS/SSDT does not require SQL Server being installed? Is there some other software, package, or step that I'm missing in installing SSDT?
For SQL Server 2012 SSRS, the functionality of BIDS is REPLACED by SSDT. If you are working with SQL Server 2008 R2 (or earlier) SSRS, then you'll want to use BIDS from that version of SQL Server.
When you install SSDT, it includes templates for BI projects (i.e. SSAS, SSIS, SSRS). SSDT can be installed as a stand-alone application, or, if you have VS2010 SP1 on your machine, then SSDT will install inside of VS2010.
For the OLTP (including offline) database projects, there is NO template. Rather there is a new View named 'SQL Server Object Explorer'. For more about the latter, see my blog post.
The new project type is found under Other Languages->SQL Server-> SQL Sever Database Project.
Do not confuse that with the old to be deprecated projects under Database->SQL Server->Advanced
The BIDS part of SSDT is sort of a separate install. (although they've tried making it seem like one install.) See this on information about why one or the other might not be installed:
http://www.jamesserra.com/archive/2012/04/ssdt-installation-confusion/

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