Report designer not in VS 2003

I have Reporting services 2000 (Version 8.00.1038.00) installed (installed with installation of MS CRM) and visual studio 2003 installed however, do not have the business intelligence report designer available. Where can I obtain the report designer addin? We don't have a RD 2000 CD. Is what I need available via download?

Thanks

Try getting the trial version of reporting services & installing the developer components. Not sure if these expire though. You may need to purchase a license for Reporting Services if you would like to use in a production environment. There doesn't appear to be a download for just the designer components for vs 2003, only 2005 Express.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=BA517C01-2E2F-4BC7-84AF-149B7637F807&displaylang=en

Or you may be able to use fyiReporting or a "common text editor" though I'm not sure who has enough time to edit RDL by hand.

from the CRM tutorial:

For information on installing Report Designer, see Chapter 24 of the Microsoft CRM 3.0 Implementation Guide.

http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/crm/using/customizing/reporttutorial.mspx

From Chapter 24.

For instructions on writing Reporting Services reports for Microsoft CRM, see the Report Writers Guide
section in the Microsoft CRM 3.0 Software Development Kit (SDK).

From the Report Writers Guide:

To write reports, Visual Studio .NET 2003 (or Visual Studio 2005) and Report Designer (a component of SQL Reporting Services) is the recommended development environment. These tools must be installed on the computer where the reports are authored. Visual Studio is the primary tool used to create or modify reports. You must also have access to Microsoft CRM to deploy the report.

Not a lot of help there! Did you try using CRM CD?

cheers,

Andrew

|||Thank you Andrew