Recovering RDL Files and Editing in VS 2003
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Good Afternoon,
I am currently recovering some .RDL files from the Report Manager screen. I click EDIT and SAVE the .RDL file to my machine. I then open it with VS 2003 and it opens as a XML file? How do I open it as a report to modify the layout and fields of the report? I assume it is something easy that I am overlooking.
Thanks,
Chris
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Open a BI project, and then under Reports in the Solution Explorer(? Sorry, from memory), right-click and choose Add Existing Item. Add the RDL and create the RDS that it needs. You can get the RDS properties from Report Manager.
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Is the BI Studio installed on VS 2003?
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Sam, even if you have BI installed, it does open up the XML (well, RDL technically, although VS sees it purely as XML) as he says, if you double click on the file, etc. That's why you have to add it to a project manually. At least I haven't found a good way around that yet. I keep an empty project handy for each datasource that I'm going to use, just for the purpose of grabbing and making quick changes to a report, then deploying them again. The reason I do one for each datasource is that I have yet to find a way to deploy even a single report without VS deploying all datasources in the project (other than third party tools, cmdline, etc.).
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David,
Thanks for the help. I put all of my reports into a BI "Report" project for future updates. Once the report was in the BI project, I created the data source and it worked like a champ. I was putting the RDL in a normal project and it would display as a report only the XML. However, once in the BI project it displayed as a report with the Data, Layout and Preview tabs.
Thanks!
-Chris
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