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Are SRS 2005 Reports Backwards Compatible?

Jack Bender
6/9/2006 6:23:02 AM

sql server reporting services:

I have a customer that is running SRS 2000 and unfortunately I only have SRS
2005 and Visual Studio 2005 in a test environement. Is it possible to
develop the reports in SRS 2005 and save them somehow that they can be
deployed on a 2000 instance of SRS?

If not, can I create the reports on in Visual Studio 2005 while I am hitting

Re: Are SRS 2005 Reports Backwards Compatible?

Bruce L-C [MVP]
6/9/2006 8:35:53 AM

No on both accounts.

RS 2000 report designer only runs in VS 2003.

Theorectically you could hand edit the RDL and remove RS 2005 specific
elements but I wouldn't want to try to do that.

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Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services

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