Hi,


Is it possible to run Reporing Services reports from a client Server app
without installing anything to the IIS?

Kind of Like Crystal does where you can distribute report viewer and install
on a client's machine.

Thank you,

Vadim

Yes, you can, but only from within Visual Studio 2005 - it does have a
report viewer control.
Just create you report and view it in a local mode.


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I see, so this means that although I could see my reports in the local mode
in VS, I can not distribute viewer to my customers and make the viewer a
part of the application.

Is this correct for both Reporting services 2000 and 2005?

Thank you for the reply

Vadim


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Hi, Vadim

The controls work just in Visual Studio 2005 created applications.
This means that you can create an application that includes the viewer
controls and:
- for Windows Forms distribute it to your customers. (They will need .NET
Framework 2.0 installed locally on their machines.)
- for ASP.NET applications, distribute it to your IIS Server

They will need .NET Framework 2.0 installed locally on their machines.
The application will view (and process) reports installed locally (or
locally to the ASP.NET app).

On the contrary, you can make the controls work on remote (server) mode,
this means, calling reports that exist and are processed in a Reporting
Services server. The controls will just show the results.

As you can see, when using the controls in local mode, no Reporting Services
"version" is used, although I guess the local reports need to be in RS2005
format (RDL Nov05 specification).

Hope this helps,

Jordi Rambla
MVP SQL Server (Reporting Services)
Solid Quality Learning (http://www.solidqualitylearning.com)

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Makes sense, but shouldnt the ReportServer still require IIS to be
configured since the viewers are mearly calling the webservices with in
ReportServer? Dont you have to have IIS in order to run the web services?
Or am I thinking incorrectly?

There are two controls. A winform and webform control. When using in local
mode the control does all the work. There is no interaction with Reporting
Services at all. The webform control requires a 2.0 framework configured
IIS. It does not use web services IF you use it in local mode. It does if
used in Server mode (it goes against Reporting Services Server using web
services).

HTH,


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Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services

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