October 12, 2006 at 11:49 am
I found this on Microsoft site:
An Overview of Reporting Services
"Reporting Services reports are designed using a new Visual Studio .NET 2003 report designer, which is available when you install Reporting Services on the same machine as Visual Studio. The designer outputs a description of the report layout and data access in the new XML-based Report Definition Language (RDL), and the RDL files are published to a report server. Report designers from third parties are also available if you want to provide authoring capabilities to your users."
Should I have installed Visual Studio on the Machine where Reporting Services is installed FIRST in order for the Visual Studio.NET 2003 report designer to actually work? I have CRM, Reporting Services and IIS on one Server and my SQL Server 2000 backend on another Server. I installed Visual Studio.net 2003 on MY desktop and I can connect to Reporting Services but it doesn't seem to be working correctly.. can anybody explain how this is supposed to work>?????
October 13, 2006 at 1:54 am
Hello,
Your server side installation sounds OK.
On your local machine you should first install Visual Studio and after that Reporting services, choosing only the designer component.
You should then have a new project type in Visual studio (Business Intelligence). In the project properties you can define the url to your reporting services server for deploying the reports to that environment. See docs for details.
Success!
October 13, 2006 at 5:39 am
Thank you so much!!! I didn't realize that I had to install the Reporting Services Designer component on my local machine!!!!
I am installing Visual Studio.net ENterprose Architect 2003 from our MSDN subscription.. is this the correct version??
October 13, 2006 at 6:14 am
Any VS 2003 version will do, I believe. Enterprise Architect must certainly! I use Professional, also works fine.
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