Can report be design without VS.NET

Hi. I just started playing with reporting services and I have a couple of
questions if anyone can help. First, I've noticed most of samples everywhere
is using report designer using Visual Studio.NET, am I force to use VS.NET or
can I use other applicaitons to generate the report. Also, if I have a
normal ASP website, can I link the report into ASP pages or do I need to
display via ASP.NET. I'm trying to figure out if I need to rewrite my
website into ASP.NET application and if I don't need ASP.NET, what other
report designer is out there to allow me to create a report. Any feedback
would be great.
HenryToday VS.Net is required to design using the report designer shipping with
the product. There are 3rd party designers out there, check the MS site for
3rd party partners. Most people though use the report designer that ships
with the product. Any version of vs.net will do (the cheapest is to buy
vb.net, about $100).
One thing to realize is RS is an asp.net application so to run it you have
to have IIS and asp.net running. Yes you can have your own web page in some
other technology somewhere else and use either URL integration or web
services (soap) to integrate but that would be in addition to the asp.net
web site running RS.
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Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"Henry" <Henry@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi. I just started playing with reporting services and I have a couple of
> questions if anyone can help. First, I've noticed most of samples
everywhere
> is using report designer using Visual Studio.NET, am I force to use VS.NET
or
> can I use other applicaitons to generate the report. Also, if I have a
> normal ASP website, can I link the report into ASP pages or do I need to
> display via ASP.NET. I'm trying to figure out if I need to rewrite my
> website into ASP.NET application and if I don't need ASP.NET, what other
> report designer is out there to allow me to create a report. Any feedback
> would be great.
> Henry