Please guys i am confused between VS 2003 and RS 2005

Is it possible to use SQL server reporting services 2005 with Visual Studio 2003

I mean when you say new project under VS 2003 does it show under project types:

Business intelligence projects using Reporting services 2005.

Since we have done lot of work using VS 2003(framework 1.1) and now really does not want to get into using Framework 2.0 (VS2005)

But want to use just the reporting services 2005 with VS 2003.

Thank you all very much for the valuable information.

You can create RS 2000 reports with VS 2003 and deploy them to a 2005 Reporting server however you won't be able to use any of the new features of RS 2005.

I would advise you to use the SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio to develop RS 2005 reports.

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Thank you very much Adam.

How about if i use SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio to develop RS 2005 reports to develop reports,

Will i be able to call the reports via URL or may be webreference it via WSDL reportingservices.exe from VS 2003.

We have a requirement to develop almost 75 reports, once we develop those reports using RS 2005, ultimately we have to provide an interface in VS 2003 .aspx page to call those reports. is that possible.

Thank you.

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Let me just repharase to make sure I understand you correctly.

You wish develop a set of reports and have them deployed to a reporting services 2005 report server. You then need to develop a front end using VS 2003 and the .NET Framework version 1.1. You want to know whether you can reference a reporting services 2005 web service from your VS 2003 project.

I see no problem with this. You can add a webreference to a web service developed with any version. The WSDL is the definition of the web service and acts like an interface or a contract.