Unless you have control over their Reporting Services server you can't. If
you deploy the reports yourself to the server and set the security where
they can not get the RDL then you are fine. Otherwise the customer can get
the RDL for any deployed report. If you use custom assembles to extend the
product then you can do things to that but the RDL can not be protected.

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Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services


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Hi,

If i ship an RDL file to a client can they open it with a new project and
edit it ?

Thanks
Scott

Thanks for reply.

How are you supposed to protect your source code if you sell and ship a
package of RDL reports ?

Thanks
Scott

ok, thanks for reply.
Scott