• richardmgreen1 - Thursday, March 22, 2018 10:35 AM

    Hi all

    We've been using Report Builder from the SSRS web-page to produce reports and using Report Parts for standard items (headers, footers, etc.) but we want to start using Visual Studio so we can get the reports into source control.

    I can't see any way of using report parts in the Visual Studio report builder.

    We've been using report parts so that any changes to the report parts are automatically pushed through to the individual reports as opposed to us going through every report and updating it manually.

    Is there any way to use report parts from Visual Studio?

    You can publish new report parts but you can't search for them and use them in Report Designer like you can with Report Builder. It's more limited in Report Designer. This is the documentation on what you can and can't do -
    Report Parts in Report Designer (SSRS)

    Creating a template with report parts might be a workaround - you may want to see if that would work for you:
    Creating a Custom Report Template in SSRS

    Sue