SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 Projects with Visual Studio 2012 - Learning SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 - page 67

In the early days of SSDT, when it debuted, there was some confusion ( http://www.
sqlservercentral.com/blogs/jamesserra/2012/04/13/ssdt-installation-
confusion/print/ , also http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ssdt/archive/2012/06/06/
getting-started-with-localdb-debugging-using-ssdt.aspx?CommentPost
ed=true#commentmessage ) related to its installation. This seems to persist, as you
can see that the SSDT installed with SQL Server 2012 Enterprise (Evaluation) still
shows the Web install of SSDT as a project template, as shown in the next image.
More information on SSDT and Visual Studio 2012 is available at http://social.
msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/thread/1f005f31-
82a6-4e1c-b221-cb2c798c4caa . A few more ready-to-use details are at http://
hodentekmsss.blogspot.com/2012/12/december-update-to-ssdt.html .
Also note that the Report Model of the BIDS project shown in the next image in
column three is not supported in SSDT, as Microsoft enhanced the ad-hoc reporting
capability with the new Business Intelligence Semantic Model ( BISM ). The Report
Model continues to be supported in the earlier version of SQL Server 2008 and SQL
Server 2008 R2. In Chapter 4 , Visual Studio 2008 Business Intelligence Template projects
in Learning SQL Server Reporting Services 2008, ISBN: 9781847916187 , a complete
hands-on exercise steps you through creating a Report Model project and deploying
to the Report Server.
In the first column, you see the project types available in Visual Studio Ultimate
(notice the absence of BI projects) if you do not have SQL Server 2012 installed.
In the middle column, what appears to be a project template is not a project but
a link to a Web install of SSDT: