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Visual Studio 2010 and Report Builder 3.0 RDL reports use a new schema that is not supported by SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. They are designed to work only with SSRS 2008 R2. Currently there is no way to publish a VS2010 Report on SQL Server 2008 without some modifications to the RDL code.

In order to publish the RDL in SSRS 2008, the following steps have to be performed:

1. Open the RDL file (not project) with Visual Studio or an Xml Editor.

2. Replace the report namespace occurrences from 2010 to 2008:

<Report xmlns_rd="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SQLServer/reporting/reportdesigner" 
  xmlns_cl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2010/01/componentdefinition" 
  xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2010/01/reportdefinition">

Should be replaced with:

<Report xmlns_rd="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SQLServer/reporting/reportdesigner" 
  xmlns_cl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2008/01/componentdefinition" 
  xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2008/01/reportdefinition">

3. Report the following Xml Tags (Keep the Xml between the Tags)

<ReportSections>
  <ReportSection>
  </ReportSection>
</ReportSections>

4. Save the Xml file and publish the report. This should now work with SSRS 2008.

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This issue sometimes happens when you deploy a web application that contains report files on IIS7. 
The reports work fine in the development environment, but once published nothing appears in the results.
The report window will either complete and show zero pages or the “Report is being generated” message will show up:

The problem is that the web browser is unable to locate Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd, even though the http handler might be included in the web.config file.

To verify that this is the problem, open fiddler web debugger in your Internet Explorer session and check for any 404 errors with the Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd url.

To resolve this issue we have to manually add the http handler to the web site in IIS. Report Viewer 2008 Redistributable with SP1 should be installed of course.

1. Open IIS.
2. Click on the web site that you want to add the Handler Mapping to
3. Double Click on the Handler Mappings
   
4. From the actions Task Menu click on Add Managed Handler
   
5. Enter the following information in the Add Managed Handler Window:
   Request Path: Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd
   Type: Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.HttpHandler, Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a
   Name: Reserved-ReportViewerWebControl-axd
   
6. Click OK and you’re done.

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