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How does one get around having codelens on Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition

On one of my devices I have it working on Visual Studio 2015 CE (I have no idea how I got it on that installation). Yesterday, I installed Visual Studio 2015 on another device but no codelens. I have SSDT and SSMS 2016 installed (as suggested on another post) but still no codelens.

MRainzo
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    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn269218.aspx CodeLens is strictly a non-Community-edition feature. You should expect any workaround to be disabled by Microsoft. – Lex Li Jan 16 '17 at 13:31

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Install SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools) and do not forget to set checkboxes for SQL Server Analysis, Reporting and Integration.

Borrowed here: install-codelens-visual-studio-community-2015

Mikey
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  • I tried that earlier and it didn't work as referenced in the question. Can you confirm if it still works now? I will also try it again when I get home – MRainzo Jan 16 '17 at 12:54
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    I just downloaded and installed SQL Server with developer license (no 10GB data cap, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-downloads ) and noticed new features in VS. I actually had to google what Codelens is... – Mikey Jan 16 '17 at 13:52
  • Okay. I will try it out tonight! – MRainzo Jan 16 '17 at 13:54
  • I can confirm that this didn't work for me. I guess @Lex Li was right with his comment – MRainzo Jan 19 '17 at 10:37