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I am using visual studio 2008 and reporting service 2008.
I created a .rdl reports. Now I want to convert .rdl to .rdlc. How can I do it?
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RDL and RDLC formats have the same XML schema. However, in RDLC files, some values (such as query text) are allowed to be empty, which means that they are not immediately ready to be published to a Report Server.
Since both components use the same reporting engine, RDLs and RDLCs use the same XML schema. Thus, most material you find online for SSRS also applies to RDLCs.
What is an RDLC file? The RDLC stands for Report Definition Language Client side. Actually It is an extension of report file created by using Microsoft reporting technology. The SQL Server 2005 version of Report Designer is used to create these files.
Good question. According to spec whey should be more or less the same, but in reality they differ wildly depending on version. For instance if I open an RDLC file I created in Visual Studio 2010 in Report Builder 3.0 it works. But if I make a change in my RDL(C) file and try to open it in VS2010 I first get asked if I want to convert it to RDLC 2008 format (yes) and then I get the error message "The report definition has an invalid target namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2010/01/reportdefinition' which cannot be upgraded."
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There is nothing to convert. All you have to do is to rename the file to .rdlc. This converts it from a server report to a client report. The underlying schema is the same, whether it's an .rdl or .rdlc file.
Take a look at FAQ #8 here: http://www.gotreportviewer.com/
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