Comments on: You can’t deploy a SQL 2008 SSRS Report to a SQL 2005 SSRS Server

By: mrdenny

mrdenny — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:57:07 +0000

The issue comes when you only have BIDS 2008 and VS 2008 installed and you need to create a report for a SQL 2005 server.

You can push a SSRS 2005 report to a 2008 server without issue, but going the other way doesn’t work.

By: TStat

TStat — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:30:13 +0000

I am currently running BIDS for 2008 and Visual Studio for 2005 on the same machine without any issues. I do it here at work as well as my laptop at home. I can write reports for SSRS 2005 or 2008 depending on which server I need to publish to. I personally wouldn’t bother with trying to hack a 2008 report down to work in 2005 as the reason I write in 2008 is to take advantage of 2008’s features. You CAN also simply publish a report written in 2005 to a 2008 report server as it is backwards compatible.

By: Marlin7

Marlin7 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:56:18 +0000

This is the error:
An error occurred during local report processing. The definition of the report ‘Main Report’ is invalid. The report definition is not valid. Details: The report definition has an invalid target namespace ‘http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2008/01/reportdefinition’ which cannot be upgraded

By: Marlin7

Marlin7 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:48:33 +0000

I went through the trouble and paid the cost of upgrading to VS2008 and installing the BIDS of SQL2008, only to find i can’t upload SSRS2005 reports which i edited in VS/BIDS2008. So i sure would love to see a workaround!

-On a hunt.