Both Report Designers can be installed side by side. RS 2005 comes with its
own version of VS 2005 so you do not need to purchase VS 2005 to run the
designer. However, if you want to create custom assemblies then you would
need to purchase VS 2005.
--
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
[quoted text, click to view] "theaddict" <theaddict@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Sorry to hijack this. I have RS2000 running on my dev machine and would
> like to be able to run RS2005 side by side with this. Is this possible?
> I cannot uninstall 2000 as it used for dev of production reports and I
> could not make any changes if I needed to?
>
> TIA
>
> Bruce L-C [MVP] wrote:
>> RS 2005 is part of SQL Server 2005. You cannot get it separate. Any box
>> running RS 2005 must have a SQL Server 2005 license.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bruce Loehle-Conger
>> MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
>>
>> "tlyczko" <tlyczko@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1148307676.169124.284530@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> >I forgot to search the list before I asked, I apologize...
>> >
>> > It seems that RS 2005 is compatible with SQL Server 2000, and that RS
>> > 2005 will work with VS 2005, but is RS 2005 even available as a
>> > separate download/install for SQL Server 2000??
>> >
>> > I looked on the MSSQL downloads page and did not see it...unless it is
>> > not a separate download...I don't expect my agency to be interested in
>> > SS 2005 for quite a while.
>> >
>> > Thank you, Tom
>> >
>