RDL file - Reporting Services showing HTML in design view

Question

for some reason the RDL file RDL file - Reporting Services showing HTML in design view in Visual studio

any clues as to why

only thing i can think of it is that it makes use of Dundas Charts and i dont have that installed. Will i need that????

Answer 1

VS2008 will attempt to display an error message as HTML if the RDL has an error (for instance, a unrecognized tag), however the HTML doesn't render properly, resulting in the design view showing plain HTML.

If you're using custom components which aren't installed, it probably thinks there's an error in the RDL.