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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 installing Microsoft Update 956391. Specifically, users receive the error "Unable to load client...
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Custom Credentials in the Report Viewer
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...
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SQL Server 2008 and the ReportViewer Controls
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...
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Report Viewer in Visual Web Developer 2008 Express
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...
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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 BindingSource as a data source to the ReportViewer in local mode. Problems typically manifest when...
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Did Your Session Really Expire?
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...
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Manually Printing a Report
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....
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Where’s the new Report Viewer?
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...
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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 new features available in this CTP which are being discussed on the Reporting Services team...
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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, but it is particularly noteworthy for the ReportViewer control. Beta 2 contains several key...
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JavaScript API
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...
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Report Viewer at PDC 2009
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...
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AsyncRendering and all the Baggage that Comes With It
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...
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Expression Evaluation in Local Mode
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...
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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 application from VS 2008 to VS 2010. Once upgraded, the report viewer shows the loading indicator...
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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 ReportViewer control in this release:Support for ASP.Net AJAXSupport for the SQL 2008 RDLC schema,...
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Upgrading Web Application Projects to VS 2010
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...
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ASP.Net ReportViewer Samples
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...
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Nested Objects in Local Mode
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...
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The Invisible ReportViewer
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...
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