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March 2006 - Posts

Deploying the ReportViewer ASP.NET control that ships with VS 2005
We're finishing up an ASP.NET and SQL Server Reporting Services migration and trying to get the control working properly on a different server during deployment. Turns out there is a bootstrapper exe to run on the target server. Instructions on deployment can be found here. At first I was just trying to track down the dlls and drop them in the bin directory, but I figured there was a better way and this is apparently it. You also have to add a new verb in the web.config section. Amazingly enough, the error that comes back tells you this and gives you the exact syntax, which is a nice surprise after some of the esoteric errors returned by previous versions of ASP.NET and Reporting Services.