Interesting, a few ?'s. Are you on BIDS 2005 SP3 and what service packs are on your client? Are you creating a report server project? We can connect...

Further research has shown us that you can connect to a SQL 2008 database with Business Intelligence Design Studio (BIDS) 2005 but the query designer and other tools are now...

Just trying to create a simple BIDS Reports Project to run against a SQL2008 64 bit Database as my data source, Tried applying SP3 to BIDS but does did...