Direct Reports : Visual Studio

Younger Than Yesterday (ReportViewer in VS 2008)

bwelcker — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:04:53 GMT

As most of you probably know by now, Visual Studio 2008 is now available. What you might not have noticed is a new version of the ReportViewer control and local /embedded report editing experience. Included with VS 2008 are the following new features:...(read more)

Gone Glimmering (Fix for Visual Studio Hang)

bwelcker — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:48:26 GMT

I am very happy to announce that a fix has been released for the notorious "Visual Studio cannot shut down because a modal dialog is open" bug. I know that many of you are getting this daily when using the SQL Server 2005 Report Designer. You can read the KB article for the fix here. Currently, you will need to get the fix from Microsoft Customer Support but we are working to get this posted publicly.

When Your Heartstrings Break (ReportViewer Controls SP1 Redistributable)

bwelcker — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:37:00 GMT

For those of you who are incorporating the ReportViewer control in your WinForms or ASP.NET applications, I'm happy to announce the availability of a new ReportViewer redistiributable package. This package contains all of the fixes to the controls that were in Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 as well as a few that were discovered after SP1 was released.

There are two download locations:

Full Installation (for customers who don’t have the original package on their machine)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E7D661BA-DC95-4EB3-8916-3E31340DDC2C&displaylang=en
Upgrade (for customer who have the RTM version of the package on their machine)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=35F23B3C-3B3F-4377-9AE1-26321F99FDF0&displaylang=en

Houdini (GotReportViewer?)

bwelcker — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 04:36:00 GMT

If you are eager to get started with the Microsoft Report Viewer Controls in Visual Studio 2005, check out Rajeev's new site at http://www.gotreportviewer.com/. It's got lots of great info and samples.