Sorry for the late reply, I've been traveling and super-busy but have been meaning to get back to this post. I'm sorry to say that I don't have much of a solution, it just looked like people in this thread were not understanding your problem. I have seen other equally weird behavior in BIDS (Business Intelligence Development Studio) that I was fixed by a re-install.

The problem you are having appears to be related to BIDS (if that is what you are using). You said that you tried re-installing SQL Server - did you reinstall BIDS as part of that? Either way you may want to re-install BIDS (e.g. run the installer, do add/remove componants, remove BIDS... run the installer again and add BIDS. You may also check for updates. If you are using full blown Visual Studio instead of BIDS then re-installing SQL Server would not have fixed anything and you may want to re-install Visual Studio.

My world is mostly SSRS these days and, I'll be honest, I just use this stuff and have not installed/configured VS/BIDS in a few years so take what I said with a grain of salt. The best advice I can give is to re-post this problem under Reporting Services 2008 Development with the Title, "Problem with BIDS". I think you'll get a better answer. Hope that helps.

P.S. If you are at SQL PASS (I could not go this year :crying: ) - go talk to the CAT[/url] people. They'll figure it out in 30 seconds (they're real good)