How to Deploy Reports to a Production Environment

Our situation is that we are developing a set of "master" reports locally
using Visual Studio .NET 2003 (and, of course, the Reporting Services
designer). Once the master reports are finished, we will need to install
these reports to our customers' computers (their computers are not a part of
our network, we don't have access to them to deploy from our computers and
the Visual Studio .NET 2003 solution/project). And then we will need to
deploy to the ReportServer on their server.
Additionally, the customers' server will have VB .NET installed (the basic
edition to allow RDL development).
So, should we simply copy the solution, project, RDS, and RDL files to the
customers' server, then open the solution in VB .NET, and deploy? Or is
there a better way?
Also, since we are developing the master reports in a solution/project in
Visual Studio .NET on our local development servers, is there any
compatibility issues in trying to open that same solution in VB .NET on the
customers' server?
Thanks.I would think the easiest way would be to build a quick app to do this using
the CreateReport SOAP Api. You could then make this app as simple or
complex as you need it and not need to worry about your customers having any
VS components. We shipped a sample app (RSExplorer I believe) that does
allow you to deploy but it would have to be modified if you wanted to easily
upload a directory of rdls.
--
-Daniel
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> Our situation is that we are developing a set of "master" reports locally
> using Visual Studio .NET 2003 (and, of course, the Reporting Services
> designer). Once the master reports are finished, we will need to install
> these reports to our customers' computers (their computers are not a part
of
> our network, we don't have access to them to deploy from our computers and
> the Visual Studio .NET 2003 solution/project). And then we will need to
> deploy to the ReportServer on their server.
> Additionally, the customers' server will have VB .NET installed (the basic
> edition to allow RDL development).
> So, should we simply copy the solution, project, RDS, and RDL files to the
> customers' server, then open the solution in VB .NET, and deploy? Or is
> there a better way?
> Also, since we are developing the master reports in a solution/project in
> Visual Studio .NET on our local development servers, is there any
> compatibility issues in trying to open that same solution in VB .NET on
the
> customers' server?
> Thanks.
>