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

Do you just not have access to a copy of VS2005? If so, you can try opening the project in VS2005 Exrpess. Not sure if it will work or not, since I haven't done it or have SSRS projects to test with.