Resolved VS Reporting Tools

[LabProARW]

I'm doing my first database application using C# with VS2019. It is dead in the water due to problems with getting reports to work. On a form where I want a report to appear in the Toolbox and General subgroup there are are no report items listed. I right click and select 'Choose Toolbox Items' , and selected the .NET Framework Components, as a tutorial showed. As I follow the tutorial and look down the list of components there are none for reporting. I have tried at the top menu bar 'Extensions', 'Visual Studio Marketplace', 'Tools', 'Reporting' to see what I supposedly already have. I have a green check mark beside 'Microsoft Reporting Services Projects' and 'Microsoft RDLC Report Designer'. At the moment I have a MS Access backend file to mine and create reports from. Nothing that I have tried works - and my use of VS2019 is suspended until this lack of being able to generate a report is fixed. At one point early in trying to figure this out I did have a 'Report Viewer' tool.. but have lost that showing in the Toolbox. I cannot find it now, but even when I could drag and drop the Report Viewer object onto my report form, it was only a white square which did not do or allow anything to happen. The tutorials that I've seen showed that once the 'Report Viewer' control was dropped on a form, that inside of it there was a navigation bar of sorts. Mine never showed this.

I would really appreciate some constructive and kind direction on how to get this project moving again by detailing how to get the reporting to work.

Thank you for any help!

 

[jmcilhinney]

The ReportViewer control is no longer in the Toolbox by default. You need to add it to your project as a NuGet package. I believe that this is the one you need.

 

[LabProARW]

The ReportViewer control is no longer in the Toolbox by default. You need to add it to your project as a NuGet package. I believe that this is the one you need.

Thank you for pointing me to this. I had tried several times to add the ReportViewer through "managing extensions" through the Visual Studio Marketplace . It seemed to work each time -- except for ReportViewer never showed up in my list of tools to choose from. By uninstalling what was showing up in Marketplace as installed... and re-approaching this from 'Tools' -> 'Nuget Package Manager', and using 'Browse to the location of the correct .dll it finally worked. When you drew my attention to NuGet and I Googled the step by step for installing, everything worked perfectly.
Thank you!