SSRS 2016 Report View Management

Question

We are studying the installation of SSRS 2016. We are currently using ReportViewer Control 11 (2012). Do we need to upgrade to ReportViewer Control 12 (2015) so we can view reports?

I guess there is no 2016 version yet.

I just want to make sure that everything is possible if we install the SSRS version of version 2016.

Answer 1

Microsoft has released a preview of Report Viewer 13 controls on nuget. I checked it and found that it works as well as the viewer directly on the report server.

The only problem I encountered is that now hidden options leave an empty table cell in the toolbar, and do not replace non-hidden options.

https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportViewerControl.WebForms.Preview/

Using the report viewer:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=827676

Answer 2

SSRS 2016 Report Designer uses the new 2016 schema definition for rdls, which is NOT supported by the v12 control:

http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2016/01/reportdefinition

So, if you upgrade your SSRS to 2016, and you updated your developer tools, and you use the report viewing management tool in your own web application (which you should be, or you wouldn’t ask correctly). You will then have v13 Report Viewer to use.

If your RDLs cannot be edited using the latest developer tools, the v12 report viewer should still display them, although I have not tested this script against the latest CTP

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The v12 report viewer is backward compatible with 2005, 2008, 2010 and, of course, the 2012 schema definitions (which are used by the 2014/2015 report developers).

So, if your team upgraded to VS 2015 Update 3 using the latest SQL Server data tools, then you will begin to see how the 2016 report definitions appear when they are edited.

previous versions of SQL Data Tools would only update the definition of RDL when using one of the new features, this new version seems to update them no matter

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There is no official download of the client executable for the v13 report viewer, you will need to extract the necessary DLLs from the GAC from the server using SSRS 2016 running on it, or from the development machine with the latest data tools installed. If you encounter problems, look at the ReportViewer.aspx file in the SSRS 2016 web application folder for the latest syntax changes.

Answer 3

The 2016 Report Viewer version is now available for WinForms and WebForms. (July 27, 2017) NuGet is available on Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportViewerControl.WebForms and Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportViewerControl.WinForms , but the MVC version is still awaiting.