I waited until VS2010 RTM to try to import the (working) VS2008 projects I have that use the ReportViewer. So far all of them fail to convert properly. Some throw exceptions some simply don’t let me access the RV control’s action menu. This is the same problem we had when converting VS2005 to VS2008 SP1 projects.
The new RV control local report processor is based on 2008 RDL—again, three years behind (the VS2008 SP1 RV control only supported 2005 RDL). No sign of this being fixed before the SQL Server Reporting Service team bumps the RDL to the next version. We haven’t seen the new SQL Server 2008 R2 BI tools yet (except in beta).
The Reporting Service team is really caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to their interdependency with the Visual Studio team. The VS team insists on “final” bits way too soon and has no mechanism to accept later builds that reflect the latest RS builds so I guess the RS team just gives them the old version (that had probably been ready for months or years). I expect they’ll try to divorce themselves from this unhappy marriage sooner or later.
The Connect bugs (551997 and 551987) on these issues have been “routed” but not addressed—and I don’t expect they will be… the “By Design” rubber stamp is already inked.
