Visual Studio – Unable to preview the report, install the business intelligence developemnt studio feature

When running visual studio 10 for development of reports on AX2012 R2 you might encounter the error “unable to preview the report, install the business intelligence developemnt studio feature”. This is caused by a missing component, required by visual studio 2010, to edit and preview the reports.

You need to install the SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) module. This can be found by downloading the file SQLEXPRADV_x64_ENU.exe from the following location: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30438