Report Services CRI: CustomReportItemDesigner could not be found in Microsoft.ReportDesigner

  • Hello All,

    I'm working on a custom report item for a reporting services report and am following the documentation in BOL and on MSDN Mag

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345225.aspx

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/10/SQLServer2005/

    The design version of the component must inherit from the CustomReportItemDesigner class in the Microsoft.ReportDesigner.

    But is is not present in my local copy.

    I'm using the same path as the samples and the same assembly

    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7

    \IDE\PrivateAssemblies\Microsoft.ReportingServices.Designer.dll

    but it does *not* contain the CustomReportItemDesigner class.

    The assembly is only present in the VS collection, it's not in the SQL Server install.

    Does anyone know how to find the complete version of the dll?

    Thanks gang, this CRI approach is our best hope for some highly compact custom visualizations the charting vendors simply don't support yet. There's not a lot out there on this error, hope someone here's conquered it.

    much appreciated!

    Skål - jh

  • Tired grabbing the Microsoft.ReportDesigner.dll from another developer who has VS-9, it was a newer version but still does not contain CustomReportItemDesigner needed for the CRI designer.

    Has anyone had success with a CRI and gotten around this?

    The sample projects included them as references, I hope the correct version is available somewhere.

    much appreciated!

    Skål - jh

  • Found it finally!

    SQL Server 2005 SP2 updated the library.

    Be careful if you install Visual Studio later, it may overwrite that dll, and even VS-9 has an older version of it.

    Skål - jh

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