Report Designer installation location

We are installing Reporting Services 2000 on a new SQL Server 2000 box and
get a message indicating that Visual Studio 2003 needs to be installed,
otherwise it will install RS2000 without Report Designer.
We currently have RS2000 installed on a SQL Server box with VS2003 and it
works fine.
This time we would like to do it differently and install RS2000 on a SQL
Server 2000 box, but install VS2003 on a development workstation. How can we
do this and still get Report Designer installed on the workstation? Don't we
need RD to get all the RS controls, etc?
Thanks,
SteveOn Aug 1, 12:50 pm, Steve <MyNoS...@.NoSpam.org> wrote:
> We are installing Reporting Services 2000 on a new SQL Server 2000 box and
> get a message indicating that Visual Studio 2003 needs to be installed,
> otherwise it will install RS2000 without Report Designer.
> We currently have RS2000 installed on a SQL Server box with VS2003 and it
> works fine.
> This time we would like to do it differently and install RS2000 on a SQL
> Server 2000 box, but install VS2003 on a development workstation. How can we
> do this and still get Report Designer installed on the workstation? Don't we
> need RD to get all the RS controls, etc?
> Thanks,
> Steve
If I recall, the Report Designer for the 2000 version requires Visual
Studio to be installed on the same box. This is not the case in SSRS
2005, since it installs the Business Intelligence Development Studio
Environment (which includes the Report Designer) as long as SQL Server
2005 is on the local box. Most likely, you will need to install VS
2003. Sorry that I could not be of greater assistance.
Regards,
Enrique Martinez
Sr. Software Consultant