Question

I built a report with Report Builder 3.0 and I am trying to display it with a report viewer in VS 2010. I keep getting this error message.

The report definition is not valid. Details: The report definition has an invalid target namespace ‘http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2010/01/reportdefinition’ which cannot be upgraded.

Here is the code I am using.

public partial class ViewReport : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if(!IsPostBack)
            PopulateReport(GetDataSet("24"), Server.MapPath("/IncidentReportOld.rdl"));
    }
    private DataSet GetDataSet(string id)
    {
        string sql = string.Empty;
        SqlDataAdapter ada;
        string conString = "Data Source=con-sqlc-02;Initial Catalog=Incident;Integrated Security=True";

        DataSet ds = new DataSet();

        sql = "select * from Rpt_Incident where incidentID = " + id;
        ada = new SqlDataAdapter(sql, conString);
        ada.Fill(ds, "Incidents");

        return ds;
    }

    private void PopulateReport(DataSet ds, string reportPath)
    {
        /* Put the stored procedure result into a dataset */

        if (ds.Tables[0].Rows.Count == 0)
        {
            //lblMessage.Text = "Sorry, no record returned in this report";
        }
        else
        {

            // Set ReportViewer1
            ReportViewer rv = new ReportViewer();
            rv.LocalReport.ReportPath = reportPath;
            ReportDataSource datasource;
            rv.LocalReport.DataSources.Clear();
            for (int i = 0; i < ds.Tables.Count; i++)
            {
                datasource = new ReportDataSource(ds.Tables[i].TableName, ds.Tables[i]);
                rv.LocalReport.DataSources.Add(datasource);
            }

            RenderPDF(rv);
        }
    }

    private void RenderPDF(ReportViewer rv)
    {
        Warning[] warnings;
        string[] streamids;
        string mimeType;
        string encoding;
        string extension;

        byte[] bytes = rv.LocalReport.Render("PDF", null, out mimeType, out encoding, out extension, out streamids, out warnings);

        this.Page.Response.ClearHeaders();
        this.Page.Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "inline; filename=IncidentTest.pdf");
        this.Page.Response.ClearContent();
        this.Page.Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
        this.Page.Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";

        BinaryWriter writer = new BinaryWriter(this.Page.Response.OutputStream);
        writer.Write(bytes);

        writer.Close();

        //flush and close the response object
        this.Page.Response.Flush();
        this.Page.Response.Close();
    }
    private void PopulateReport1(DataSet ds, string reportPath)
    {
        /* Put the stored procedure result into a dataset */

        if (ds.Tables[0].Rows.Count == 0)
        {
            //lblMessage.Text = "Sorry, no record returned in this report";
        }
        else
        {

            // Set ReportViewer1
            //ReportViewer rv = new ReportViewer();
            ReportViewer1.LocalReport.ReportPath = reportPath;
            ReportDataSource datasource;
            ReportViewer1.LocalReport.DataSources.Clear();
            for (int i = 0; i < ds.Tables.Count; i++)
            {
                datasource = new ReportDataSource(ds.Tables[i].TableName, ds.Tables[i]);
                ReportViewer1.LocalReport.DataSources.Add(datasource);
            }

            ReportViewer1.LocalReport.Refresh();
            //RenderPDF(rv);
        }
    }


}

Answer 1

I was actually able to fix this issue myself.

I just changed the extension from RDL to RDLC. Then I opened it in VS and VS asked me if I wanted to convert it. I said yes then I got This error message.

The report definition has an invalid target namespace ‘http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2010/01/reportdefinition’ which cannot be upgraded.

So I changed the namespace to this which is for SQL Reporting Services 2008.

<Report xmlns:rd="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SQLServer/reporting/reportdesigner" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2008/01/reportdefinition">

After that I got an error saying “ReportSections” is an invalid child element. I removed it then everything worked! Hopefully this will help anyone else with this issue.