Editing Reports With Missing .RDL and Development Files

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JStandard - 24 Feb 2006 22:42 GMT

Greetings,

I am attempting to update a reporting services report but the developer
that initially developed it is no longer with the company, and all of any
related Visual Studio development files are missing.

Is there any way I can open up this report in designer mode the way I would
any reoprt in Visual Studio? I've been able to download the .rdl file for
it, but when I open it up in Visual Studio it is basically just an .xml file.

Thanks kindly,

JStandard

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Kaisa M. Lindahl Lervik - 25 Feb 2006 11:25 GMT

Try creating a new Reporting Project in Visual Studio.
Then right click on the solution, choose Add Existing Item and find the RDL
file you've saved.

Try opening it. Seems these reports prefers to be in a project to open
correctly. :)

Kaisa M. Lindahl Lervik

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JStandard - 28 Feb 2006 16:46 GMT

Kaisa,

Worked like a charm, thanks kindly!

- Jeff

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