My problems with the Reporting Services in Visual Studio 2008

I have used Reporting Services with VS 2003 and VS 2005 and I am beginning to work with VS 2008. I have come across a strange problem. I used the Reporting Services Configuration utility that comes with the default installation of SQL Server 2008 November CTP. The Configuration gets completed without a hitch and I can see the Report Server databases in my Server but when I try to access the Web URL or even the Object Browser in the Management Studio I get an exception. I am trying to find out the reasons for this.



What I have found so far is that while the Reporting Services Configuration provides me with a default web URL [that I can happily click on] it does not write it to the configuration file, the RSReportServer.config. Could this be the reason?

Effortless migration of data from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008

It's so easy to transfer a database from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008. Well the same holds good from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008. Read on...

Moving database from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 in three steps

SQL Server 2005 can be migrated to SQL Server 2008 quite easily by manually detaching the database from SQL Server 2005 and attaching it to SQL Server 2008. This is a much easier process than the 'Copy Database Wizard' which has two procedures one of which is the same as the manual process but carried out under the watchful guidance of a wizard and the other which does not require the stopping of the Source server.

Are you planning to install SQL 2008 Server?

If you hit a hard wall during SQL 2008 Server installation you may want to read this article. Starting with a clean state is the best approach and the next best is "Sweat & Struggle".