Is it true that the only way to do a commandline build of a reporting project is by calling vs 2008's Devenv.exe? Can msBuild not build a reporting services project?Dave Lloyd ALM MVP

Hi Dlloyd, Based on my understanding, you might want to know whether the MSBuild could deploy the report to the report server, MSBuild Tasks could allows users to have intergrated build script for report projects and method to deploy reports. For detail information, please see: http://ssrsmsbuildtasks.codeplex.com/ Relevant information http://www.codeproject.com/KB/reporting-services/CustomMSBuildTask_RS.aspx If I misunderstand you, please feel free to ask. Thanks, Challen Fu [MSFT] MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us Get or Request Code Sample from Microsoft Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.

Hi Dlloyd, Based on my understanding, you might want to know whether the MSBuild could deploy the report to the report server, MSBuild Tasks could allows users to have intergrated build script for report projects and method to deploy reports. For detail information, please see: http://ssrsmsbuildtasks.codeplex.com/ Relevant information http://www.codeproject.com/KB/reporting-services/CustomMSBuildTask_RS.aspx If I misunderstand you, please feel free to let me know. Thanks, Challen Fu [MSFT] MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us Get or Request Code Sample from Microsoft Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.

Thank you for the response. To be clear, I'm not concerned about deploying the reports. I can do that using rs.exe. I just want to compile them and make sure they have no error's and warnings. Plus I need it to be a command line compile. I read somewhere this can only be done via devenv.exe is this true? DaveDave Lloyd ALM MVP

From what I can tell the only way to compile Reporting Services Reports is using devenv like this. "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /Build debug /out "Logs\SSRS.Log" reportingServices.slnDave Lloyd ALM MVP