Brian Hartman's Report Viewer Blog

Visual Studio 2010 SP1

Earlier this month, we released Visual Studio 2010 SP1. The service pack is available for download...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 03/31/2011

The Invisible ReportViewer

An interesting bug report came in recently regarding toggling the Visible property on the ASP.Net...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 11/16/2010

Nested Objects in Local Mode

As I have mentioned before, the Reporting Services team regularly reviews the bug reports and...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 10/27/2010

ASP.Net ReportViewer Samples

We have recently posted a number of samples that use the ASP.Net ReportViewer. These sample...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 09/25/2010

Upgrading Web Application Projects to VS 2010

A number of people have posted questions about upgrading their VS 2008 web applications using the...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 06/07/2010

Visual Studio 2010 is Now Available

As many of you know, Visual Studio 2010 was released last week. We’ve done a lot of work to the...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 04/20/2010

Reports Never Stop Loading With VS 2010

I’ve received a number of questions from people who have run into problems after upgrading their web...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 03/21/2010

We Need Your Help

The forums, Connect, and direct feedback through this blog and others have always helped shape...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 03/09/2010

Expression Evaluation in Local Mode

RDL and RDLC files contain expressions written in VB.Net. As .Net code, expressions can potentially...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 02/18/2010

AsyncRendering and all the Baggage that Comes With It

The AsyncRendering property on the ASP.Net ReportViewer control is one of the most misunderstood...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 01/21/2010

Report Viewer at PDC 2009

Stella Chan, Program Manager for the Reporting Services developer scenarios, will be presenting at...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 11/16/2009

JavaScript API

One of the new features we added to the ASP.Net Report Viewer in Visual Studio 2010 is a JavaScript...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 11/09/2009

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is Now Available

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is now available for download! This beta includes plenty of new features,...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 10/22/2009

GDI+ Updated Again

Last year, I wrote about Microsoft Update 956391, a security update to GDI+ that the Report Viewer...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 10/13/2009

SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP is Available

The SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP is now available for download. Reporting Services has a number of...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 08/16/2009

Where’s the new Report Viewer?

Previously, I posted that we were working on an updated version of the report viewer control for...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 06/18/2009

Manually Printing a Report

Even though the ReportViewer has built-in print functionality, people often wish to implement their...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 02/27/2009

Did Your Session Really Expire?

The ASP.Net ReportViewer relies on ASP.Net session state to store critical data that can’t always be...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 02/15/2009

Why is ReportViewer Ignoring BindingSource Operations?

I’ve seen several posts in the Report Viewer forum from frustrated users who are trying to use a...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 01/22/2009

Report Viewer in Visual Web Developer 2008 Express

After the initial release of the ReportViewer ASP.Net control with Visual Studio 2005, we also...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 12/29/2008

SQL Server 2008 and the ReportViewer Controls

In August, we released SQL Server 2008 with a number of new features for Reporting Services. There...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 12/05/2008

Custom Credentials in the Report Viewer

When using the ReportViewer control in server mode, you will need to consider how you want to...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 11/21/2008

Client Print Fails to Load After Microsoft Update 956391

A number of people have reported problems using the ActiveX print control in the report viewer after...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 11/05/2008

Welcome

Welcome to my blog. My name is Brian Hartman. I'm a lead developer on the SQL Server Reporting...

Author: Brian Hartman - MSFT Date: 10/23/2008