Hi all,

I am Visual Web Developer user and facing a problem when I am creating a local report (.rdlc) file.

I am using Business objects as the Data Source for this report. It was working perfectly until all the items in the Website Data Source window suddenly "disappeared". The "Add New Data Source" button on this window is also disabled. Now the window is just like a blank box only. And I can't continue working with the report file like this...

I have tried undoing what I did before but it does not help at all...

Any reason for this to happen? There is no sign or something at least indicating what is wrong.

Please help.

Thanks

 ps: found a similar thread in this forum but not solved

Hi. Workaround that worked for me. 1)Add ekstra aspx page 2)Add ReportViewer 3) go to design mode--> klick > in upper right corner and choose Design new report.(and after it opens, do not choose datasource , just close the window). (if you get out of range error or something like that, go back to your rdlc and delete all items without a object datasource from the report, build and repeat steps) After this the Website data soruce window is back. Using visualt studio 2008 , workes every time for me and 3 other i work with.

It worked for me. Any particuar why this is happening?? its kinda strange !!

Dont know exactly why, but something with the references to all the objects. If one is not updated , ore visual studio thinks it is broken it terminates the loading... But this is only my guess.

 

The workaround works fine, but it has a tendens to happen again, but the  i just do it again:) Good luck:)