Can't find Report Designer

I think I've installed all of the required pieces (SRS, already had VS.NET
2005 installed, BI tools). But the BI tools (e.g. Report Designer) don't
appear on a menu anywhere, and the desired project type for reports doesn't
appear in VS.NET.
What might I have done wrong?
Thanks.
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Home Phone: 416-423-9064If report designer was installed before VS 2005 then it will not be
integrated (that happened to me). Reinstall Report Designer from the SQL
Server 2005 media.
Note that RS 2005 comes with a version of VS so you did not have to have VS
2005 (this is different than the case with RS 2000).
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"Dan Cooperstock" <dancoo@.newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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>I think I've installed all of the required pieces (SRS, already had VS.NET
> 2005 installed, BI tools). But the BI tools (e.g. Report Designer) don't
> appear on a menu anywhere, and the desired project type for reports
> doesn't
> appear in VS.NET.
> What might I have done wrong?
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Dan Cooperstock
> DONATION web site: http://www.FreeDonationSoftware.org
> DONATION Support forums: http://forums.FreeDonationSoftware.org
> E-mail: mailto:info@.FreeDonationSoftware.org
> Home Phone: 416-423-9064|||"Bruce L-C [MVP]" <bruce_lcNOSPAM@.hotmail.com> wrote in
news:eNhaYvEBHHA.3836@.TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:
> If report designer was installed before VS 2005 then it will not be
> integrated (that happened to me). Reinstall Report Designer from the
> SQL Server 2005 media.
> Note that RS 2005 comes with a version of VS so you did not have to
> have VS 2005 (this is different than the case with RS 2000).
>
Nope, VS.NET 2005 was installed first. I have tried installing SQL Server
(including Report Designer - via BI tools) a few times now, and nothing
appears in VS.NET.
Dan Cooperstock
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Home Phone: 416-423-9064|||Not sure what to say except to make sure you are doing client tools instead
of the server but it sounds like you are doing that.
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Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"Dan Cooperstock" <dancoo@.newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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> "Bruce L-C [MVP]" <bruce_lcNOSPAM@.hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:eNhaYvEBHHA.3836@.TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:
>> If report designer was installed before VS 2005 then it will not be
>> integrated (that happened to me). Reinstall Report Designer from the
>> SQL Server 2005 media.
>> Note that RS 2005 comes with a version of VS so you did not have to
>> have VS 2005 (this is different than the case with RS 2000).
>>
> Nope, VS.NET 2005 was installed first. I have tried installing SQL Server
> (including Report Designer - via BI tools) a few times now, and nothing
> appears in VS.NET.
>
> --
> Dan Cooperstock
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> Home Phone: 416-423-9064|||Hello Dan,
Would you please try to check whether you have the Business Intelligence
Projects under the folder
%Program Files%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies ?
Also, please let me know your Visual Studio version.
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rights.)|||weilu@.online.microsoft.com (Wei Lu [MSFT]) wrote in news:ghfrDiJBHHA.4432
@.TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl:
> Please check you have the Business Intelligence projects under
> Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies
The only thing I see there that looks relevant is
Microsoft.ReportDesigner.dll.
I can also clarify that while I don't see the project types when I go to
add a new Project to the solution (which the installer suggested I should I
have) I did discover that under adding a new Item to a project, I do have
Report, and it is indeed an SRS Report that it creates.
Dan Cooperstock
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Home Phone: 416-423-9064|||When you do New Project you should have Business Intelligence Projects as a
choice.
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"Dan Cooperstock" <dancoo@.newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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> weilu@.online.microsoft.com (Wei Lu [MSFT]) wrote in news:ghfrDiJBHHA.4432
> @.TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl:
>> Please check you have the Business Intelligence projects under
>> Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies
> The only thing I see there that looks relevant is
> Microsoft.ReportDesigner.dll.
> I can also clarify that while I don't see the project types when I go to
> add a new Project to the solution (which the installer suggested I should
> I
> have) I did discover that under adding a new Item to a project, I do have
> Report, and it is indeed an SRS Report that it creates.
>
> --
> Dan Cooperstock
> DONATION web site: http://www.FreeDonationSoftware.org
> DONATION Support forums: http://forums.FreeDonationSoftware.org
> E-mail: mailto:info@.FreeDonationSoftware.org
> Home Phone: 416-423-9064|||"Bruce L-C [MVP]" <bruce_lcNOSPAM@.hotmail.com> wrote in
news:unK9bGNBHHA.3560@.TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl:
> When you do New Project you should have Business Intelligence Projects
> as a choice.
>
Yes, I agree that I should. But I don't. The fact that I don't is what led
me to post about this in the first place!
Dan Cooperstock
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Home Phone: 416-423-9064|||I have had people doing things with VS 2005 thinking they were using the
report designer when really they were dealing with the new controls (which
also allow designing reports). You wouldn't believe how many times people
have not installed from the SQL Server media the client BI tools. That is
why I am making sure.
I had exactly what you are talking about happen but it appeared when I
re-installed. Have you tried removing (not just re-installing) but first
removing the BI tools and then re-installing.
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Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"Dan Cooperstock" <dancoo@.newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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> "Bruce L-C [MVP]" <bruce_lcNOSPAM@.hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:unK9bGNBHHA.3560@.TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl:
>> When you do New Project you should have Business Intelligence Projects
>> as a choice.
>>
> Yes, I agree that I should. But I don't. The fact that I don't is what led
> me to post about this in the first place!
>
> --
> Dan Cooperstock
> DONATION web site: http://www.FreeDonationSoftware.org
> DONATION Support forums: http://forums.FreeDonationSoftware.org
> E-mail: mailto:info@.FreeDonationSoftware.org
> Home Phone: 416-423-9064|||"Bruce L-C [MVP]" <bruce_lcNOSPAM@.hotmail.com> wrote in
news:uZSipgaBHHA.4592@.TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl:
> I have had people doing things with VS 2005 thinking they were using
> the report designer when really they were dealing with the new
> controls (which also allow designing reports). You wouldn't believe
> how many times people have not installed from the SQL Server media the
> client BI tools. That is why I am making sure.
> I had exactly what you are talking about happen but it appeared when I
> re-installed. Have you tried removing (not just re-installing) but
> first removing the BI tools and then re-installing.
>
Yes, uninstalling my whole SQL Server installation and then re-installing
it fixed it - I now have the Business Intelligence projects.
Thanks!
--
Dan Cooperstock
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Home Phone: 416-423-9064|||Good. Glad it is fixed.
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"Dan Cooperstock" <dancoo@.newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:Xns987892BF57C28dcoopssympaticoca@.207.46.248.16...
> "Bruce L-C [MVP]" <bruce_lcNOSPAM@.hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:uZSipgaBHHA.4592@.TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl:
>> I have had people doing things with VS 2005 thinking they were using
>> the report designer when really they were dealing with the new
>> controls (which also allow designing reports). You wouldn't believe
>> how many times people have not installed from the SQL Server media the
>> client BI tools. That is why I am making sure.
>> I had exactly what you are talking about happen but it appeared when I
>> re-installed. Have you tried removing (not just re-installing) but
>> first removing the BI tools and then re-installing.
> Yes, uninstalling my whole SQL Server installation and then re-installing
> it fixed it - I now have the Business Intelligence projects.
> Thanks!
> --
> Dan Cooperstock
> DONATION web site: http://www.FreeDonationSoftware.org
> DONATION Support forums: http://forums.FreeDonationSoftware.org
> E-mail: mailto:info@.FreeDonationSoftware.org
> Home Phone: 416-423-9064