Error While Creating PPS SP2 Reporting Services 2008 Report...The Fix

jbasilico — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:29:00 GMT

While working on a proof this past week, I installed PerformancePoint 2007 SP2...wishing to use it with SQL Server 2008's Reporting Services. However, when creating a report which was of Reporting Services type, I recieved the following error - "Could not load file or assembly Microsoft.ReportViewer.WinForms". See image of the error below.

Well...what I learned is that Report Viewer wasn't installed by PerformancePoint 2007 SP2, so you'll need to install it on the workstations where you are going to use PPS Dashboard Designer. Luckily installing is very easy using the Report Viewer 2008 Redistributable installer found here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=CC96C246-61E5-4D9E-BB5F-416D75A1B9EF&displaylang=en.

Demo files Used In My BI Conference Session...

jbasilico — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:42:00 GMT

For those that attended my session (Designing Effective Dashboards with Msft BI Platform) at the 2nd annual Msft BI Conference in Seattle, and had asked for the demo files/projects, you can download my demo files here. The zip file contains the SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services project file, SQL Server 2008 Report Builder file for the combined sparkline and bullet graph, PerformancePoint workspace file, and the "minimum" masterpage for MOSS. Keep in mind that you'll need to alter the location of your Reporting Services installation, the Analysis Services AdventureWorks database, as well as the PPS service site on MOSS. Enjoy!

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Error While Creating PPS SP2 Reporting Services 2008 Report...The Fix

Demo files Used In My BI Conference Session...