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Been playing around with building a “Key Performance Indicators” dashboard, based on QuickBooks data, accessible from a phone with a browser (mine’s a Motorola Q with WM6). My first attempt has been to use the ASP.NET ReportViewer control. But when I attempted to deploy the page to IIS instead of the Visual Studio development web server (in order to make the page accessible to my tethered phone; http://localhost isn’t routable), I hit two problems.

Solutions are here for posterity:

  1. You need to install the latest ReportViewer redistributable.
  2. You need to either use the classic app pool in IIS, or setup a custom managed handler for the reporting control. Info is here.
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  1. Actually, instead of installing the latest report viewer distributable you should be able to copy 2 assemblies - Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common.dll and Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms.dll into the bin directory.

    We do this on our production servers where we try to install as little as possible.

    Stuart

    Comment by Stuart McLean — July 13, 2009 @ 5:52 am

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