Missing Microsoft RDLC Report Designer in Visual Studio

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HCL picture HCL · Jul 23, 2015 · Viewed 241.8k times · Source

In Visual Studio 2015, I cannot find the designer for RDLC reports anymore. Does anyone know if this is only a bug and if it is provided later on or if Microsoft wants to kill the RDLC or if they want us to use an external designer and when, which designer this is?

Update For developpers searching for the RDLC Report Designer in Visual Studio 2017, it must be now downloaded from the Visual Studio Marketplace

Answer

powerzone3000 picture powerzone3000 · Jul 23, 2015

Update: The way RDLC Report Designer is installed has changed with Visual Studio 2017 and newer. See other answers for details. Besides that, the ReportViewer Control is now available through NuGet, see here.

original answer below

The Report Designer is part of the Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools.

You can add it using the Visual Studio setup (Programs and Features > Visual Studio 2015 > Change)

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