Visual Studio Express 2008

paddypower
paddypower Member Posts: 98
edited 2009-01-13 in NAV Three Tier
Hi,

I am trying to edit NAV 2009 reports in Visual Studio 2008.

I have installed so far:

Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Express Edition with SP1 - ENU
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition with SP1 - ENU

When i open the layout it convertsthe layout into Visual web developer.
What else do I need to install without installing the whole Visual Studio program.
Links to where I can download this information would be very useful as well.


Thanks for you help


PaddyPower

Comments

  • freddy.dk
    freddy.dk Member, Microsoft Employee Posts: 360
    Should be explained in this thread

    viewtopic.php?f=32&t=30044
    Freddy Kristiansen
    Group Program Manager, Client
    Microsoft Dynamics NAV
    http://blogs.msdn.com/freddyk

    The information in this post is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. This post does not represent the thoughts, intentions, plans or strategies of my employer. It is solely my opinion.
  • clausl
    clausl Member Posts: 455
    "Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition" also requires "Reporting Add-In for Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express" installed. Unfortunately this is not been released yet by the SSRS team, but it is expected to be out very soon. Keep an eye on my blog, http://blogs.msdn.com/clausl, where I will make a post when this is available for download.

    So until this Report Add-In has been released your options are the following:

    Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Standard and up
    Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Standard and up
    Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition with "Reporting Add-In for Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express"

    Also note that the Visual Studio version installed with SQL Server unfortunately does not do the job, since Reporting Add-in is not included and can not be applied to this version.
    Claus Lundstrøm | MVP | Senior Product Manager | Continia.com
    I'm blogging here:http://mibuso.com/blogs/clausl and used to blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/nav
    I'm also offering RDLC Report Training, ping me if you are interested. Thanks to the 700 NAV developers that have now already been at my training. You know you can always call if you have any RDLC report issues :-)
  • paddypower
    paddypower Member Posts: 98
    Thank you Claus for the clarification.


    Paddy Power
  • clausl
    clausl Member Posts: 455
    "Microsoft Report Viewer Add-on for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition" has now been released.
    Unfortunately this was released after we shipped Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 RTM, so this unfortunately does not work out of the box with NAV 2009.
    You will get a message that you need to convert the report, when opening layout, and converting the report will do you no good.

    Good news are that there is a workaround for this:

    1. Navigate to “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\60\Classic”
    2. In this folder there is 2 folders called “ReportLayout2005” and “ReportLayout2008”
    3. Copy all files from “ReportLayout2008” to “ReportLayout2005”

    Doing this will of course kill support for “Microsoft Visual Studio 2005” and “Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express” on this specific client, but now 2008 works and you no longer get the convert report message.

    We plan to have this issue resolved in SP1 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, so there is no need for this manual workaround.

    Regards,
    Claus
    Claus Lundstrøm | MVP | Senior Product Manager | Continia.com
    I'm blogging here:http://mibuso.com/blogs/clausl and used to blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/nav
    I'm also offering RDLC Report Training, ping me if you are interested. Thanks to the 700 NAV developers that have now already been at my training. You know you can always call if you have any RDLC report issues :-)
  • gerdhuebner
    gerdhuebner Member Posts: 155
    clausl wrote:
    "Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition" also requires "Reporting Add-In for Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express" installed. Unfortunately this is not been released yet by the SSRS team, but it is expected to be out very soon. Keep an eye on my blog, http://blogs.msdn.com/clausl, where I will make a post when this is available for download.

    So until this Report Add-In has been released your options are the following:

    Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Standard and up
    Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Standard and up
    Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition with "Reporting Add-In for Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express"

    Also note that the Visual Studio version installed with SQL Server unfortunately does not do the job, since Reporting Add-in is not included and can not be applied to this version.

    Well, I installed NAV 2009 yesterday without MS Visual Web Developer but instead, I first installed "MS SQL Server 2008 Express with Advanced Services", which has a Report Designer included ("light" version of Visual Studio 2008) - With this SQL Version it is possible to design reports without the needs to install any further version of MS Visual Studio...
    The only problem during installation was, that NAV 2009 installation routine (developer option) automatically installs SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition and attaches the database, etc. to it, even when SQL Server 2008 is installed. So I had to reconfigure the installation for SQL Server 2008 manually with the usual steps (attaching database, extended stored procedure xp_ndo_enumusergroups for windows authentification, edit CustomSettings.config, setting the trace flag T4616, etc. - all steps can be found in nav_install.chm on the product release docu folder).
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  • clausl
    clausl Member Posts: 455
    Please read the Blog I just posted here about the options for Visual Studio and NAV 2009.
    http://blogs.msdn.com/nav-reporting/arc ... -2009.aspx

    Thanks,
    Claus
    Claus Lundstrøm | MVP | Senior Product Manager | Continia.com
    I'm blogging here:http://mibuso.com/blogs/clausl and used to blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/nav
    I'm also offering RDLC Report Training, ping me if you are interested. Thanks to the 700 NAV developers that have now already been at my training. You know you can always call if you have any RDLC report issues :-)
  • clausl
    clausl Member Posts: 455
    gerdhuebner wrote:
    The only problem during installation was, that NAV 2009 installation routine (developer option) automatically installs SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition and attaches the database, etc. to it, even when SQL Server 2008 is installed. So I had to reconfigure the installation for SQL Server 2008 manually with the usual steps (attaching database, extended stored procedure xp_ndo_enumusergroups for windows authentification, edit CustomSettings.config, setting the trace flag T4616, etc. - all steps can be found in nav_install.chm on the product release docu folder).

    The issue is unfortunatly that the NAV 2009 installation is looking for the Instance MSSQLSERVER, and this is not the default instance of SQL Express 2008. So renaming the Instance on SQL Server Express 2008 to MSSQLSERVER before installing NAV 2009 RTM will do the job. Decided to do a small blog post on that here:
    http://blogs.msdn.com/clausl/archive/20 ... press.aspx
    Claus Lundstrøm | MVP | Senior Product Manager | Continia.com
    I'm blogging here:http://mibuso.com/blogs/clausl and used to blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/nav
    I'm also offering RDLC Report Training, ping me if you are interested. Thanks to the 700 NAV developers that have now already been at my training. You know you can always call if you have any RDLC report issues :-)

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