Sharepoint Reporting

Question

Hi,
I am working with sharepoint 2010. I am having a Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Trail Version. When I Add Report Wizard [RDLC reports]item in visual studio 2010 it gives us an option to select different data source types.  There one option is  Sharepoint
datasource type. After selecting the sharepoint datasource it gives me an Add Service Reference  window. I gave the lists.asmx(web service proviceded by microsoft ) webservice of my sharepoint site to the address type. Although it successfully added to
the datasouce but its not showing in the datasource window of report wizard. Basically i am looking for a client side reporting against sharepoint lists. Here are my specific questions
1. How to work with the sharepoint datasource type of the client report wizard?
2. Can I generate a RDLC report against lists of sharepoint site which later can be converted to .rdl type(since the sharepoint OTB report viewer only support rdl files.)?
3. How to work with local mode reporting in sharepoint 2010(As i know, there is no BI template available for 2010 !!)?
A step by step description will help me more... (sorry i am Junior :))
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi Kannan,
We see the same behavior you are seeing. I can create a second data source using Object to select the item class from the SharePoint Service reference.  To actually get the data though, I’m having to do a Linq query and populate the data source
by hand.  I’m trying to find out if there is an easier way to do this. 
In regards to the RDLC to RDL, see the following: 
Converting RDLC Files to RDL Files
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252109.aspx
In regards to working with local mode reporting in SharePoint 2010, there are two possibilities depending on what you are doing exactly.
1. Reporting Services Add-In with RDL reports in Local mode
a. See the following: 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff487969.aspx
b. This is limited to Access Data Sources, SharePoint List data sources or no Data source.  If you want to do anything else, then see item 2.
2. Custom Web part using Report Viewer Control with RDLC Files
a. This would be like any other RDLC processing using the Report Viewer Control.
b. In regards to working with RDLC in general, this is a good starting point -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252067.aspx
Thanks,
Cathy Miller
Microsoft Online Community Support