ReportViewer for SQL Server 2008

Question

VS2008 ReportViewer won't work in local mode with SQL 2008 reports (e.g. created with Report Builder 2.0). As far as I know that Beta2 includes updated report viewer: from this topic it seems that there's redistributable package.

The question: is there a way to make the new ReportViewer control to work with VS2008?

Answer 1

I hate to answer my own questions (especially that fast) but I made it work with VS2008:

1. Get reportviewer.exe from location indicated at the link above or from the cab6.cab in the VS2010Beta2 disk.
2. Install it.
3. Copy Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms.dll and Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common.dll to your app's local dlls folder (\lib) and reference them in the project. Not sure if this is enough, I had to deploy/install reportviewer.exe anyway. But this is required to add references to VS2008.
4. Now the report viewer - at least, LocalReport used to generate PDFs - work.

I couldn't reference the assemblies in the GAC with VS2008 "Add Reference" - it only showed 9.0 versions. Don't know why, though of course it would be better to reference GAC assemblies. Will accept those who provide a fix for this.