Adding SSDT BI Templates in Visual Studio 2015

Question

I have a new laptop with Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise and SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.1 installed on it. I want to develop SSIS & SSRS projects using this setup, but I am having a hard time getting the Business Intelligence templates to show up in VS.

I installed the SQL Server Data Tools for Visual Studio 2015 from here:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/mt186501.aspx

This installation seemed to work, but the BI templates still did not appear in VS.

After this was installed, I started up the SQL 2016 installation again to see if I could add this as a feature in the installation. It was not an option in the Feature Selection area. I tried both the "Perform new installation of SQL" and "Add feature to an existing instance" options during the setup wizard.

What am I missing here? In doing some research, it seems like these BI templates should be available for VS 2015. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. Thank you!

Answer 1

Go to Tools > Extensions and Updates... Under the Updates tab, you'll find Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) Update.