My customer has SQL Reporting Services on a server with SQL 2000 Standard Edition. The customer wants to develop his own Reporting Services reports. We have been recommending Visual Basic.NET Standard 2003 for this purpose in that it costs less than $100 (usually). However, with the advent of Visual Studio 2005, the VB.NET 2003 is becoming difficult or impossible to obtain. One option is Visual C#.NET Standard 2003 - I assume it will work - does anyone know for sure?
More importantly, when Visual C#.NET 2003 becomes unvailable, what options are left for developing RS 2000 reports?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Mark
>More importantly, when Visual C#.NET 2003 becomes unvailable, what options are left for developing RS 2000 reports?
None from Microsoft. There are third-party solutions, e.g. Cizer.
|||You could also write a small tool that performs a RDL structure "downgrade" conversion (see e.g. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=988366&SiteID=1). However note that RS 2000 doesn't support a number of RS 2005 features (e.g. multi value parameters).
-- Robert
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