How to get Visual Studio 2008 to edit SSRS 2005 Report Projects w/o Installing SQL Business Intelligence Development Studio 2005?

Question

I\'m trying to determine how to open/edit existing SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2005 report projects (.rptproj) and reports (.rdl) with Visual Studio 2008, without

Answer 1

That is just ridiculous.

We are still running SQL2005 here, with no plans to upgrade soon. Given the state of the economy we don't have a lot of cash flow for server upgrades without a really good reason.

The developers have been able to upgrade to Visual Studio 2008, but we have to still keep VS2005 on our machines so we can edit old SSRS and SSIS packages.

At one time we had some developers with THREE versions of Visual Studio on their machines. Can't wait for Visual Studio 2010 to see what they left out in that version, maybe we'll be able to have FOUR versions on our machines. That's not stupid at all!