If I login as myself, I just get the error message when trying to view the report in Preview.

If I login as the builtin local administrator, Visual Studio crashes when...

I suppose this has nothing to do with it, but I can use ReportBuilder 1 (on SSRS 2008 instead of 2008R2) fine on the same machine...

Thinking about it... This has got to be user/security specific because it works fine when I login as the builtin Administrator... 😎

Yep, there were two sub-options and I enabled both ("Windows Communication Foundation HTTP Activation" and "Windows Communication Foundation Non-HTTP Activation") but it still prompts me for installing the .Net framework...

Just in case this is useful... I run Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bits (within a virtual machine)

The user login I use is in the Administrators group.

Yet... If I login as the builtin Administrator, ReportBuilder works fine...

Just to make sure, I logged in back with my usual...

I know but it's "worth it" in this case

Now that you mention it, it's true that I can use ADO .Net connections which are far cleaner... but then I can pay a penalty price...

Cheers

Eric 😉

Ddi someone get fired after designing this?

Just kidding! 😀

Thanks for the info

I have since tried on 64 bits and did not get the problem...

Yep, I'll assume it did not like 32 bits.

However, if it dies with relatively little data and a...

I have tried to reduce the number of rows in the datasource, stop whatever services I did not need, etc

But I still get the error and there seems to...

I feared that kind of answer... :pinch:

Thanks!

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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.5057.00 (Intel X86)

Mar 25 2011 13:50:04

Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation

Developer Edition on Windows NT 6.1 (Build 7601: Service Pack 1)

executable is SQLServer2005SP4-KB2463332-x86-ENU.exe

Not sure...

I have the 32 bits version and I am using a 32 bits virtual machine within a 64 bits Windows 7 host.

I would have thought that 32bits is what...

I tried that but the task complains if you don't map any output to an input.

On the other hand, as suggested by Koen, we can right click on a column...