Visual Studio Report Wizard wont run

[Alison]

Im new to Telerik reporting and am creating a class library in .net 4.81 to house the report.

When I run the Terlerik Report Wizard 2025 Q1

It starts up and asks me to select a Report template.

I select Band Report

Then it returns the message:

Can not start wizard. Make sure the reports default editor is the form editor

How do I fix this?

Side Note: I do have a previous .cs report build and I can view it in the designer and do preview.

Currently I have the Telerik.Reporting assembly referenced in the Class Library

[Dimitar]

Hello Alison,

Thank you for the provided information about the issue!

In the past, we have observed this issue when the target framework of the project was .NET instead of .NET Framework. Could you please check what is the target framework of the project that you are trying to add reports to from its csproj file?

If the issue is present even in a .NET Framework project, please uninstall all versions of Telerik Reporting available on your machine, close all instances of Visual Studio and install the product again which should re-add the Reporting VS extension to your Visual Studio.

Note that the Visual Studio Report Designer, currently, is available only to projects that target .NET Framework. With that being said, we are working on implementing the VS Designer also in .NET projects, you may follow the progress by having a look at the Make Visual Studio designer work with .NET Core (a.k.a. SDK-style) projects feedback item. By voting for it, you would increase its priority and it would also ensure that you will receive a notification whenever there is an update on this item.

While the designer cannot be opened in .NET class libraries, the reports can be displayed in .NET applications without issues. However, if you would like to still be able to design these reports, there is a workaround that is described in the How to use Visual Studio Report Designer to edit CS Reports in .Net Core Projects KB article. The workaround is not great but is the only option if you are not willing to convert the CS reports to TRDP/TRDX, for which we have a converter by the way - How to import reports created with the VS Report Designer.

This is a common scenario that our users have run into in recent years, and we have created a short KB article that may help you decide what to do in this case - Guidance for using reports from an existing .NET Framework 4+ report library in a .NET Core application.

I hope that the provided information and suggestions are helpful. In case you need further assistance, please attach a copy of your class library project so that I can inspect and test it locally.

Regards,
Dimitar
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