An error occurred when opening Report Designer. A supported version of Visual Studio could not be found.

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The subject of this post is the error that I receive when clicking on Layout for a report.

Installed on development pc:
Windows 7
NAV 2009 SP1 6.0(RC02) R2(6.00.32146)
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express
VS Express for Web (2012)

In the past I was able to click on Layout and develop rdlc reports. Recently I installed both Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express and VS Express for Web (2012). Since installing these two, I have not been able to design rdlc reports.

Could installation of VS Express for Web (2012) have caused problems? The web page blogs.msdn.com/…/visual-studio-2010-and-ssrs-rdlc-reports-in-nav-2009.aspx is of some interest, but it doesn’t address existence of 2012 on a computer.

Is there a problem with having 2012 installed? I need 2012 installed for other development work.

Thanks in advance,
Paul

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I feel Vs 2012 is not supported to this version of Nav 2009 Sp1.

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I did not expect 2012 to be supported. I was hoping that NAV2009 would continue using 2008 even when 2012 is installed.

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Hi Django,

I have both 2008, 2010 and 2012 of Visual Studio installed. And it works fine - but it’s the full versions (not web developer) - although web should be enough.

NAV 2009 uses VS 2008 and NAV 2013 uses VS 2010, as you know.

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Thanks Erik for confirming that NAV 2009 should still work with 2008 even after 2010 and 2012 are installed.

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May I suggest that you simply try to reinstall VS 2008? I remember when I installed VS 2010, then couldn’t use the RDL report designer. I just had to reinstall VS 2008 again (which didn’t change anything in the way VS 2010) worked. Except now report designer worked again.

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Thanks again Erik. Yes it was as simple as doing a repair on “Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition”. I am back in business.