Brian Hartman's Report Viewer Blog

Stella Chan, Program Manager for the Reporting Services developer scenarios, will be presenting at PDC this week. If you're attending the conference, check out her session: Developing Rich Reporting Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 . She will...

A number of people have reported problems using the ActiveX print control in the report viewer after installing Microsoft Update 956391 . Specifically, users receive the error "Unable to load client print control" when clicking on the print icon in the...

When using the ReportViewer control in server mode, you will need to consider how you want to authenticate to the report server. By default, the viewer connects as the current thread user by supplying CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials to its underlying...

I’ve seen several posts in the Report Viewer forum from frustrated users who are trying to use a BindingSource as a data source to the ReportViewer in local mode. Problems typically manifest when setting sorting or filtering options on the BindingSource...

The AsyncRendering property on the ASP.Net ReportViewer control is one of the most misunderstood properties on the ReportViewer. And that’s our fault. There are a lot of side effects to setting this property that you wouldn’t expect from the name. In...

RDL and RDLC files contain expressions written in VB.Net. As .Net code, expressions can potentially perform any operations, including accessing the file system or running native code. Code access security (CAS) for expressions is therefore critically...

Previously, I posted that we were working on an updated version of the report viewer control for Visual Studio 2010. With beta 1 now available , I have naturally started receiving questions wondering why the report viewer that is included in beta 1 is...

As many of you know, Visual Studio 2010 was released last week. We’ve done a lot of work to the ReportViewer control in this release: Support for ASP.Net AJAX Support for the SQL 2008 RDLC schema, including tablix, rich text, and enhanced charts...

A number of people have posted questions about upgrading their VS 2008 web applications using the ReportViewer control to VS 2010. The upgrade process is not automatic. Before I get into the steps required to upgrade your applications to the VS 2010 ReportViewer...

As I have mentioned before, the Reporting Services team regularly reviews the bug reports and feature requests that come in via Connect . Shortly after the release of Visual Studio 2010, we started to receive a few requests and questions through Connect...

Earlier this month, we released Visual Studio 2010 SP1. The service pack is available for download from here and the updated Report Viewer redistributable can be found here . We always prioritize our efforts based on feedback we receive through Connect...

The SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP is now available for download . Reporting Services has a number of new features available in this CTP which are being discussed on the Reporting Services team blog . This is the first release of SQL Server to include...

Even though the ReportViewer has built-in print functionality, people often wish to implement their own version to provide significant customizations or a deeper integration with their application. There are a number of samples out on the web, but I thought...

In August, we released SQL Server 2008 with a number of new features for Reporting Services . There have been questions lately about how this impacts the report viewer controls. The answer depends on whether you use server mode or local mode. Server...

After the initial release of the ReportViewer ASP.Net control with Visual Studio 2005, we also released a separate add-on to the Visual Web Developer 2005 Express sku. But when Visual Studio 2008 was released, there was no equivalent add-in for the web...

Welcome to my blog. My name is Brian Hartman. I'm a lead developer on the SQL Server Reporting Services team. I've been a member of this team since the first release of Reporting Services and have worked in several areas of the product. For the past four...

The ASP.Net ReportViewer relies on ASP.Net session state to store critical data that can’t always be easily regenerated. In local mode, it stores the report snapshot, which contains a compiled form of the report definition, some or all of the data used...

Last year, I wrote about Microsoft Update 956391 , a security update to GDI+ that the Report Viewer client print control depends on. For security reasons, that update forced us to enable a kill bit for the client print control. A new security update is...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is now available for download ! This beta includes plenty of new features, but it is particularly noteworthy for the ReportViewer control. Beta 2 contains several key updates, including: ASP.Net AJAX - The report viewer will...

One of the new features we added to the ASP.Net Report Viewer in Visual Studio 2010 is a JavaScript API to allow you to interact with the viewer on client. In reading many of the posts on the report controls forum , we found that many people struggle...

The forums , Connect , and direct feedback through this blog and others have always helped shape Reporting Services. We're grateful for all of the input we've received. But if you're looking to make an even bigger contribution to the future of SQL Server...

I’ve received a number of questions from people who have run into problems after upgrading their web application from VS 2008 to VS 2010. Once upgraded, the report viewer shows the loading indicator indefinitely - the report never loads. So what happened...

An interesting bug report came in recently regarding toggling the Visible property on the ASP.Net ReportViewer. It’s fairly subtle and I don’t believe many people are running into it. But the solution isn’t obvious, so I want to make...

We have recently posted a number of samples that use the ASP.Net ReportViewer. These sample applications cover a wide range of topics. You’ll see sample code for long standing ReportViewer concepts such as hooking up data sources to subreports and...