Problems Accessing Report Veiwer (.rdlc) Website Data Sources

Question

User-860009756 posted

 Previously had this setup in VS2005, and everything worked fine, I could load a report and drag and drop the columns into the appropriate places, have in the last month updated the project to use VS2008, now I cannot see the "website data sources" pane. When I try to access this using the Reports>Data Sources option it blows an "Aspose.Network assembly could not be found or does not exist", this is referenced by the project and is not used at all in any of the report viewer functions that I know of (have seen code to add erxtra functionality).

Does anyone know how to get this to work?

Answer 1

User-860009756 posted

Im not sure, its been a while since I had this problem,

Just checked the project and is still occuring, I believe I edited the underlying rdlc definition using a text editor to alter the datasource, then entered the values as per normal (without drag and drop) =First(Fields!CustomerCity.Value, "Reports_GetOrderParts"), which is quite time consuming, yet had to get it done and couldn't find the fix. The Report definition is pretty straight forward,

Add the values in here so the report knows where they are, then modify using VS

<DataSets>
    <DataSet Name="Reports_GetOrderParts">
      <Fields>
        <Field Name="PartID">
          <DataField>PartID</DataField>
          <rd:TypeName>System.Int32</rd:TypeName>
        </Field>
        <Field Name="PartTypeID">
          <DataField>PartTypeID</DataField>
          <rd:TypeName>System.Int32</rd:TypeName>
        </Field>
        <Field Name="VehicleID">
          <DataField>VehicleID</DataField>
          <rd:TypeName>System.Int32</rd:TypeName>
        </Field>

....

Would be interested to see what is causing this,

Answer 2

User-860009756 posted

This was simply an issue of select Report > Datasources from the menu.