SQL Server 2008 R2 developers edition / Visual Studio 2008 running on Windows 7 64 bit box.
Created a report with embedded data source. Works fine. Plublished report. Can view report in browser just fine.
Then, in VS 2008, right clicked on datasource. Selected "convert to shared datasource". I did this without any errors reported.
Rebuilt report project and deployed. No errors reported.
Ran report from browser, and now I get this error:
"The ConnectionString property has not been initialized."
Several questions:
1. How do I fix this error?
And so that I have a better understand of the technology:
2. How do I find the physical location of the RDL & RDS files? (Would i ever need to know this?)
3. Is a "report server" a specialized database server, web server or something else? At a very high level, what I'm trying to understand is what I'll have to do to set up new report servers for clients. Assuming SQL Server is installed, what tool will I use to (a) create the "Report Server"? (b) make the server public? (c) And can I simply copy RDL files to the server and (d) the shared data source and edit it?