VS 2015 Native compiler return value -1073741511 on .rdlc files when building project

I got this error:

rsUnexpectedCompilerError: An unexpected error occurred while compiling expressions. Native compiler return value: ‘-1073741511’

,when compiling rdlc's on a new box on Visual Studio 2015 on a Windows 8.1 box for an existing project

This happens on every existing rdlc file in the project that has an expression.

I checked that. I have the latest sql server data tools (ssdt) installed.

I also created a brand new console application with empty report with no expressions and it compiles fine. When I add an expression to that empty report, like in the example below, it refuses to compile.

Does anyone have any idea how can I get Visual Studio to be able to compile rdlcs with expressions? The computer used to do this before it was re-imaged with windows 8.1.

Here's an example of a file that will not compile:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Report xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2008/01/reportdefinition" xmlns:rd="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SQLServer/reporting/reportdesigner">
  <Body>
    <ReportItems>
      <Textbox Name="Textbox1">
        <CanGrow>true</CanGrow>
        <KeepTogether>true</KeepTogether>
        <Paragraphs>
          <Paragraph>
            <TextRuns>
              <TextRun>
                <Value>="goo"</Value>
                <Style />
              </TextRun>
            </TextRuns>
            <Style />
          </Paragraph>
        </Paragraphs>
        <rd:DefaultName>Textbox1</rd:DefaultName>
        <Top>0.62375in</Top>
        <Left>2.88417in</Left>
        <Height>0.25in</Height>
        <Width>1in</Width>
        <Style>
          <Border>
            <Style>None</Style>
          </Border>
          <PaddingLeft>2pt</PaddingLeft>
          <PaddingRight>2pt</PaddingRight>
          <PaddingTop>2pt</PaddingTop>
          <PaddingBottom>2pt</PaddingBottom>
        </Style>
      </Textbox>
    </ReportItems>
    <Height>2in</Height>
    <Style />
  </Body>
  <Width>6.5in</Width>
  <Page>
    <LeftMargin>1in</LeftMargin>
    <RightMargin>1in</RightMargin>
    <TopMargin>1in</TopMargin>
    <BottomMargin>1in</BottomMargin>
    <Style />
  </Page>
  <AutoRefresh>0</AutoRefresh>
  <rd:ReportUnitType>Inch</rd:ReportUnitType>
  <rd:ReportID>931c20c8-104d-4fe3-b563-d60a1298ba59</rd:ReportID>
</Report>

Here's my VS 2015 version info

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2015
Version 14.0.23107.0 D14REL
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.6.00081

Installed Version: Professional

Visual Basic 2015   XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
Microsoft Visual Basic 2015

Visual C# 2015   XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
Microsoft Visual C# 2015

Visual C++ 2015   XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015

ASP.NET Web Frameworks and Tools 2013   5.2.30624.0
For additional information, visit http://www.asp.net/

Common Azure Tools   1.6
Provides common services for use by Azure Mobile Services and Microsoft Azure Tools.

GenerateUnitTest   1.0
Generates unit test code for methods in classes under test.

Microsoft Azure HDInsight HQL Service   2.0.2600.0
Language service for Hive query

Microsoft Azure HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio   2.0.2600.0
An integrated development environment for HDInsight application development.

Microsoft Azure Mobile Services Tools   1.4
Microsoft Azure Mobile Services Tools

Microsoft Azure Tools   2.7
Microsoft Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 - v2.7.30818.1601

NuGet Package Manager   3.2.0
NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio. For more information about NuGet, visit http://docs.nuget.org/.

PostSharp   4.1.28.0

PreEmptive Analytics Visualizer   1.2
Microsoft Visual Studio extension to visualize aggregated summaries from the PreEmptive Analytics product.

SQL Server Data Tools   14.0.50730.0
Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools

In order to resolve the RDLC build problem I had to do the following (lots of digging):

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3118750 Resolution for scenario 2 Customers have to uninstall updates 3098779 and 3097997 if they have upgraded their systems to the .NET Framework 4.6 or have installed Visual Studio 2015 from a fully updated .NET 4.5.1 or 4.5.2 system that has updates 3098779 and 3097997 installed.

Reporting Services is not available in your Visual Studio 2015 SSDT build (July 2015) as noted here hence your issues trying to build reports

Jake

We experienced this issue on one server after installing .Net 4.6 (Windows Server 2012 R2) but did not have issues on any other servers (nor on Windows 7 or Server 2008). Some searching turned up nothing except this StackOverflow post, Compile rdlc in VS2013 - error Native compiler return value: '-1073741511', which describes the exact issue we were having. Unfortunately it has no solution.

In our case this was a production server and we had to restore from backup to a point prior to installing .Net 4.6.

I'm working on removing the expressions from our report (which is doable in our case but may not work for you). Which so far is the only work-around we've found.

We'll be logging a bug with Microsoft and hope for a patch soon.

What we tried but did not work