Express and Reporting Services

Hi,

This thread http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=179557&SiteID=1 says that Express will have Reporting Services enabled such that reports can be created in Express edition. I have just downloaded Express Edition with Advanced Services but i dont appear to have any of the tools neccessary to create a report using reporting services. ( I do have VS 2005)

Also this URL http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/ promotes Express as having Reporting Services and yet this table http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/features/compare-features.mspx says just the server is installed.

Can anyone please clarify if I just haven't installed or activated the required functionality to build reports using Express edition or whether there is no such capability with Express edition.

If the latter is the case does this mean that I can still run applications and reporting services reports with Express edition? In other words if I buy standard edition to develop reports, can my customers run my application (i.e reports) with Express edition or do they have to purchase standard edition as well?

Richard

Hi S-Bob

You can dowload the report designer and management studio express with the express edition toolkit:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3c856b93-369f-4c6f-9357-c35384179543&DisplayLang=en

You can create reports using standard edition or the toolkit and consumers using express advanced can view them. Note that express has some limitations such as supporting local data sources only.

-JonHP