Just thinking aloud… what about adding a wizard to Visual Studio (version after) next that would let developers extract RDL reports from a selected Reporting Services catalog (like you can with the Report Builder 2.0) and (this is the cool part), generate a TableAdapter and the parameter UI (using the Toolstrip) based on the Data Source and SQL imbedded in the report? This would make it drop-dead easy to setup custom UI for selected reports. The Report Viewer wizard does this now when you create a new report but it would be helpful if there was a “add existing report” wizard that just dealt with creation of the TableAdapter (thus the Connection) and the UI needed to capture the RDL(c) specified parameters. This wizard could also import from an RDLC or convert from a server-hosted RDL (regardless of the generation) cataloged report.
What do you think?
