How to get Visual Studio 2008 to edit SSRS 2005 Report Projects w/o Installing SQL Business Intelligence Development Studio 2005?

Question

I\'m trying to determine how to open/edit existing SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2005 report projects (.rptproj) and reports (.rdl) with Visual Studio 2008, without

Answer 1

I'm not sure about editing SSRS projects with VS2008, but I know you can use SQL Server 2008 Report Designer. You can create new reports and edit old reports as well. It will be automatically upgraded once you open them in the designer.

http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/98925/sql-server-2008s-report-designer-preview.html