Tools to use for Word and RDL layouts

Visual Studio Code does not have a valid extension—yet—that would replace the best-in-class RDL report editor, which is supported by the Dynamics 365 Business Central development team. With a release every six months, the application is always up to date and, at the time of writing, it deploys Report Viewer 2017 and the latest RDL 2016 schema-based syntax. 

To develop an RDL layout report, you have two choices:

• Report Builder for SQL Server 2016: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53613
• Visual Studio 2017 with the Microsoft RDLC Report Designer for the Visual Studio extension installed: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ProBITools.MicrosoftRdlcReportDesignerforVisualStudio-18001 

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