Friday, March 23, 2012

migrate visual studio.net 2003 to visual studio.net 2005

I've a server with Visual Studio.net 2003 and reportig services.
I want to migrate to Visual Studio.net 2005
Are there some contraindications?VS 2005 only works with RS 2005. If you want to continue to design RS 2000
reports then you need to keep VS 2003 around. You can install side by side
(I have).
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"Teo" <roninkaiser@.lycos.it> wrote in message
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> I've a server with Visual Studio.net 2003 and reportig services.
> I want to migrate to Visual Studio.net 2005
> Are there some contraindications?
>|||But for Microsoft Sql Server ?
If I migrate to RS 2005 must I to upgrade also the database to the new
version 2005?
If I migrate to RS 2005 with VS 2005 ,must I modify my old reports or
they still work?|||Answers in-line.
"Teo" <roninkaiser@.lycos.it> wrote in message
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> But for Microsoft Sql Server ?
> If I migrate to RS 2005 must I to upgrade also the database to the new
> version 2005?
No. You can upgrade only RS and leave SQL Server as 2000. However, you do
need a SQL Server 2005 license.
> If I migrate to RS 2005 with VS 2005 ,must I modify my old reports or
> they still work?
When you migrate the existing reports continue to work. You can even
continue to deploy RS 2000 reports to the server but I recommend against
that. My experience was that although my existing reports did continue to
work, I had some weird little problems. What I did was bring my reports up
in RS 2005 designer, it converts them to the new format. I then redeployed
them and all the weird little problems went away. So, you might or might not
have a problem. If a report is showing a problem then convert it to RS 2005
and redeploy.
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services

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