Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 Report Design Layout Issue

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Hi All,

I am trying to create my first report in Nav 2013 R2. I am getting the designer View in an XML(Visual Studio). How Can I view the normal Layout.

Any reply is really appreciated.

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Hi ,

What version of Visual Studio , you have? ITs not correclty set up …

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Thanks.

I have 2 different systems for Nav development.

System 1: I have Nav 2013 R2 and Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web Installed in this system. I hav also installed Visual Studio 2012 Shell (Integrated) and Visual Studio Sell (Isloated). This is the system where the XML editor view when Layout is selected.

System 2: I have Nav 2013 R2 and Visual Studio 2010 Professional with Visual Web Developer Installed. In this system I am receiving the error: An error occurred when opening the report designer. A supported version of Visual Studio cannot be found.

Thanks

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Hi All,

I think I will have to explain my case a bit more so that I might get some solution. I have 2 Development computers and I am encountering 2 different issues in each system.

System 1:
Windows 7 Professional
Dynamics Nav 2013 R2
Visual Studio 2012 Shell (Integrated)
Visual Studio Shell (Isloated)
Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web - ENU

When I open the View-Layout, Visual Studio 2012 Shell (Integrated) is open with the report contents Displayed in XML Format. Please find the below cut and paste with the first few lines of the Report.RDLC Tab.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> SQL 2in 6.5in String No_CustomerCaption No_CustomerCaption String LblName LblName
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System 2:
Windows 7 Professional
Dynamics Nav 2013 R2
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Shell(Isolated)
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 ADO.NET Entity Framework Tools
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime

When I open the View-Layout, the program display the error message : ‘An error occured when opening the Report Designer. A supported version of Visual Studio could not be found.’.

I then Installed the following to try my luck:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Shell(Isolated)
Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop
Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for applications 2.0

But I continue to receive the same error message : ‘An error occured when opening the Report Designer. A supported version of Visual Studio could not be found.’.

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You need Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Professional, Premium, or Ultimate for development or you can use Report builder which is by default installed with NAV2013R2 also.

You can enable report builder by setting in Development Environment Tools–>Options–>Use Report Builder to Yes.

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I have Installed Visual Studio 2012 and the Layout open properly. Thanks for all the help.

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I have selected General Development settings when I launched Visual Studio. Is there any other better choice considering that I will be using Visual studio mostly for Nav 2013 Development in this system.

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Same issue here, but in have installed NAV 2009 R2,2013 & 2013 R2 on a single machine.

All the RTC and development are working fine,but report designer for 2013 R2 is not opening, it shows XML code.

Report designer for 2009 R2 & 2013 are opening correctly.

As suggested by mohana i will try and will update soon.