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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The SSRS 2008 Minefield

One of the big advances in Microsoft's "2008 platform", with regard to Reporting Services, was that there would be a single, consistent Report Definition Language (RDL) across all the products. This means that reports developed in Report Builder can be shared with reports developed in BIDS, and vice-versa. While one can immediately appreciate the advantages of this, it's disappointing that it seems, on this occasion, to have been at the expense of compatibility efforts.
If you've developed reports in Visual Studio 2008 and expect to be able to deploy them to SSRS 2005, then think again. You can't.....Read More...