Why can t I see the Report Data window when creating reports

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I m creating RDLC reports in VS10   When the program is NOT running  I can see the toolbox  and add controls to the report  but the  Report Data  pane is nowhere to be found  so I can t fill the controls on my report   However  if I run the solution  the  Report Data  pane appears  and I can drag fields on to my report  however the Toolbox contains no controls while I m running   So  I ve had to put the controls on to my report while not running  run the project and while it s running I can put the fields in      anyways  how do I get the Report Data pane to stay visible while the project is not running

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If the report designer is opened  Report Data Pane can be enabled using view menu     View - gt  Report Data

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After I accidentally closed this window  I took an hour to find how to bring it back up   The right answer is indeed  View-- Report Data  ctrl alt D    The tricky part  the  Report Data  entry does not always appear in the  View  dropdown  Make sure that you have a report open  and some element of the report selected   If you re not  in the report   the entry disappears from the menu

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The most common answer to this problem is to go to the Data menu and choose Show Data Sources  This option does not appear for me     The Show Report Data Pane keyboard shortcut did work for me   CTRL ALT D   There is nothing in the menus that I could find that does this same thing

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Hi I faced the same issue in VS2008  I tried based on the post 8  Thanks to the  Tricky part  section in that   The  Ctrl Alt D  combo did not work there in VS2008  but after opening the Report file rdlc  I browsed on the View menu and found out that View- Toolbars- Data Design is the solution for that   Upon opening that we get around 4 icons of which the  Show Data Sources  section brings the  Website Data Sources  section which fetches all Entities  Typed DataSets etc   The keybord shortcut is  Shift Alt D    The twisty part here is the  Data Sources  section available with the Server Explorer toolbar doesnt bring up any stuff but the  Website Data Sources  brings all the needed   can somebody explain that to me

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I had the same problem  but in c  2012  I closed the  report data  and I couldn t find it and I finally found a solution to this issue   This is my method    VIEW  gt  gt  TOOLBARS  gt  gt  CUSTOMIZE  gt  gt  COMMANDS     select from the  Menu bar     VIEW    OK now in the  Controls  find the  REPORT DATA   select it and MOVE it UP  close the menu  After that select a file rdlc and click on the  View       OK Finally will be appeared  REPORT DATA

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I was in a weird situation in VS2019 where choosing View - gt  Report Data did nothing  and pressing Ctrl-Alt-D did nothing  The Report Data window had just strangely appeared on the left for no reason  when it was supposed to be on the right  and so I had moved it back to the right and then made it auto-hide  Not long after that it disappeared and would refuse to reappear  Possibly it was off-screen but hard to say  To fix  I had to resort to using Window - gt  Reset Window Layout which restored its position and I was able to use it again

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I was also same problem in Visual Studio 2013  Then Suddenly got an Idea   Click on Report to make focus on it  Simple Press Alt Ctrl D

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I had to go through a bit more to force a refresh in VS 2008    First  there is a Data Sources pane toolbox  menu trail   Data   Show Data Sources   and a Report Data Sources dialog  menu trail   Report   Data Sources   I had trouble with the Data Sources pane reverting to an earlier property list every time I opened a certain report  it was as if the report designer was overwriting the data definition with the report s cached version thereof   To remedy this  I had to    Exclude the report from my project to stop the build errors  Clean  amp  rebuild my project Refresh the Data Sources pane  amp  confirm I could see the new fields Re-include the report and open the report designer with the Data Sources pane pinned in view  This is the key  Drag one of the new fields anywhere onto the report surface   Number 5 forced the report s internal XML copy of the data definition to refresh  Immediately after that  I could build again

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First of all select report file with rdlc extension and then go to View   Report Data

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Open report in Report designer  Go to View menu -  Report data

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please go to  View   Toolbars   Customize   then select  Data   categories then click  Show data source  in command panel   Data  menu will be seen in menu panel  click to get the website data source

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It is in visual studio  In the designer page  it is on in the menu bar  there is XTRAREPORTS field  You can show up panels using it

[visual-studio-2010] Why can't I see the "Report Data" window when creating reports?

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