Report Designer 2005 and 2003 side by side?

When I installed SQL Server 2005 on my machine, VisualStudio 2005 was also
installed. I now have both 2003 and 2005 running. However, reporting service
projects are no longer available in the VS 2003 environment. Is it possible
to use both side by side?
TIA
HowardYes you can use VS2005 and VS2003 side by side. When you install VS2005
all the VS2003 project files icons turned into VS2005 icons but no
worrys. When you open your VS2003 solution file it opens in VS2003.
As far as the reports is it Crystal Reports that no longer exists?
Thanks
-L
My Quote : Trouble brings experience and experience wisdom.|||Yes you can use VS2005 and VS2003 side by side. When you install VS2005
all the VS2003 project files icons turned into VS2005 icons but no
worrys. When you open your VS2003 solution file it opens in VS2003.
As far as the reports is it Crystal Reports that no longer exists?
Thanks
-L
My Quote : Trouble brings experience and experience wisdom.|||Yes you can use VS2005 and VS2003 side by side. When you install VS2005
all the VS2003 project files icons turned into VS2005 icons but no
worrys. When you open your VS2003 solution file it opens in VS2003.
As far as the reports is it Crystal Reports that no longer exists?
Thanks
-L
My Quote : Trouble brings experience and experience wisdom.|||No it is the reporting services projects that are no longer available in
VS2003. Now I can only create / edit .rdl files with VS2005. Since it is
using a different version of the report designer I can no longer work on
reporting service projects without upgrading them. This is unacceptable for
a particular project on which I am working. I was hoping there might be a
way to run old version and new version side by side.
<pradev@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Yes you can use VS2005 and VS2003 side by side. When you install VS2005
> all the VS2003 project files icons turned into VS2005 icons but no
> worrys. When you open your VS2003 solution file it opens in VS2003.
>
> As far as the reports is it Crystal Reports that no longer exists?
> Thanks
> -L
> My Quote : Trouble brings experience and experience wisdom.
>|||You can definitely do this. I just doubled checked. As long as you do not
open and convert the rdl files in RS 2005 designer you can still open and
edit them. What is happening is that the extensions are being registered for
RS 2005 designer. If you just double click on the solution or the project it
will open up RS 2005 designer. However, if you open up VS 2003 and select
open project and go to your project you can open and edit RS 2000 reports.
What I did was leave my RS 2000 project alone. Copied them over to another
directory and then opened all the reports and converted them to RS 2005.
Side by side definitely works.
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"Howard Swope" <swopehATgigamotoDOTcom> wrote in message
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> No it is the reporting services projects that are no longer available in
> VS2003. Now I can only create / edit .rdl files with VS2005. Since it is
> using a different version of the report designer I can no longer work on
> reporting service projects without upgrading them. This is unacceptable
> for a particular project on which I am working. I was hoping there might
> be a way to run old version and new version side by side.
> <pradev@.gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1138917796.740022.70600@.g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> Yes you can use VS2005 and VS2003 side by side. When you install VS2005
>> all the VS2003 project files icons turned into VS2005 icons but no
>> worrys. When you open your VS2003 solution file it opens in VS2003.
>>
>> As far as the reports is it Crystal Reports that no longer exists?
>> Thanks
>> -L
>> My Quote : Trouble brings experience and experience wisdom.
>|||The Reporting Services 2005 install seemed to remove the Report
Designer in Visual Studio 2003.
So I just re-installed this designer after installing Visual Studio
2005.
Now to Design for SQL 2000 you use VS2003 and for SQL 2005 use VS 2005
all on the same box.
Have been successfully writing SQL 2000 reports in VS2003 since.
Having a nightmare trying to run the report manager for 2005 on my PC
after all of this as it won't let me deploy report models!
One of the other guys at work reckon it's due to sp2 for XP but have
tried and googled all ov er the place...|||Sorry, can't help you there.
Hmm, not sure why you ended up with the 2000 report designer removed. I
didn't have any of that happen to me.
Sorry, I can't help you with the report models. It very well could be
something with the firewall in SP2 on XP.
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"SmartbizAustralia" <tom@.smartbiz.com.au> wrote in message
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> The Reporting Services 2005 install seemed to remove the Report
> Designer in Visual Studio 2003.
> So I just re-installed this designer after installing Visual Studio
> 2005.
> Now to Design for SQL 2000 you use VS2003 and for SQL 2005 use VS 2005
> all on the same box.
> Have been successfully writing SQL 2000 reports in VS2003 since.
> Having a nightmare trying to run the report manager for 2005 on my PC
> after all of this as it won't let me deploy report models!
> One of the other guys at work reckon it's due to sp2 for XP but have
> tried and googled all ov er the place...
>|||I reinstalled the client portion of the sql 2000 reporting services and
everything is working well.
Thanks
"Howard Swope" <swopehATgigamotoDOTcom> wrote in message
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> When I installed SQL Server 2005 on my machine, VisualStudio 2005 was also
> installed. I now have both 2003 and 2005 running. However, reporting
> service projects are no longer available in the VS 2003 environment. Is it
> possible to use both side by side?
> TIA
> Howard
>