Saturday 24 May 2014

Business Intelligence

I thought I would share my unsettling experience with Business Intelligence in Visual Studio.

When I first decided to install Business Intelligence templates, it was for Visual Studio 2012. At that time, I initially failed to have those templates installed correctly. After realizing that updates weren't applied, I was able to activate these templates.

Eventually I was interested in running these templates through Visual Studio 2013. I found out that the templates came out months after Visual Studio 2012 did, and that it would be the same for Visual Studio 2013. After a long wait, the templates came out. However, a few days later the templates were pulled back due some issues that were found.

After waiting for more than a month, the templates are finally out once again: http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=42313