How do I get Visual Studio to open a deployed report?

Greetings,

I have a report that was previously deployed to a reporting services host (running Reporting Services 2005 SP2) and I'm running the version of Visual Studio that came with reporting services on the same reporting serviceshost. The deployed report was never opened on this particular server, so it doesn't appear in the recent files list. Is there a trick to open a deployed report in all of Visual Studio's report editing glory? Visual Studio has a File Open option to open an analysis services database, a project, or a file. A "deployed report" seems to be none of these options since it's an RDL file stored somewhere that IIS can find it. I know that I can use Report Manager and export the RDL for the report and then edit that RDL file in Visual Studio, but doing that appears to disable all of Visual Studio's report editing features (ie it works no better than notepad). What's the trick to get Visual Studio to open the deployed report and allow all of it's editing tools to work properly and then save the updated report back to the reporting services server?

Thanks,

Ron

In report manager, go to the report properties.

there is a button in there 'save/edit' or similar

you can then save the file locally and open it in vs.net

NB don't forget 2000 rdl files will be automatically upgraded to 2005

How do I disable the help (?) link?

I'm using RS 2000 SP2 and have implemented a custom security extension.
The reports are embedded in our web application. Everything works
great except for the help link, which when clicked, launches an IE
window that displays the login page. Is there any way to disable,
hide, or change the href for this link?
TimCan someone please just tell me it's not possible so that I can stop
asking?

How do I determine my Reporting Services version - again?

The version numer is 9.00.3186.00. I need to know what that means.
Specifically, is it SP2, which is required for a CRM update?
On searching through the newsgroup bulletins, I see that I am not the only
one who has wanted that kind of information, though unfortunately the
questions stemmed from the 8.0 release. I also did a search through the MSDN
library for ReportingService, and found this article: How to: Detect Version
Information (Reporting Services)
Unfortunately, 9.00.3186.00 doesn't appear in that article's chart. The
closest if 9.0.3042.00, which is service pack 2.
Can anyone help here?Type the following in Management Studio:
select SERVERPROPERTY('PRODUCTLEVEL')
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Thank you,
Alain Quesnel
alainsansspam@.logiquel.com
www.logiquel.com
"Bev Kaufman" <BevKaufman@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> The version numer is 9.00.3186.00. I need to know what that means.
> Specifically, is it SP2, which is required for a CRM update?
> On searching through the newsgroup bulletins, I see that I am not the only
> one who has wanted that kind of information, though unfortunately the
> questions stemmed from the 8.0 release. I also did a search through the
> MSDN
> library for ReportingService, and found this article: How to: Detect
> Version
> Information (Reporting Services)
> Unfortunately, 9.00.3186.00 doesn't appear in that article's chart. The
> closest if 9.0.3042.00, which is service pack 2.
> Can anyone help here?