Pro SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services

CHAPTER 8  DEPLOYING REPORTS

Figure 8-9. Visual Studio 2012 Configuration Manager

By default, you see the setup for the currently active configuration. You can select other

configurations by choosing from the Active solution configuration drop-down list. As you can see, for

each project in your solution, checkboxes are in the Build and the Deploy columns.

Each time you start the project, you want to build it so that you will always run the latest version of

your report. If the Deploy checkbox is also checked, then whenever you start the project in that

configuration, Visual Studio 2012 deploys the reports to the specified server that is setup in the report

project properties. However, for most configurations, such as when you’re debugging locally, you won’t

want to deploy your report to the server each time the project is started, so keeping the deploy checkbox

unchecked is what you would want.

Deploying Reports Through the Solution Explorer

You can also manually deploy reports from the Solution Explorer once you are satisfied that your reports

are ready to be deployed. The following is a list of options for deploying from the Solution Explorer. You

deploy your reports by right-clicking each of the following items and selecting Deploy:

• The solution: Deploys the reports and data sources in all the Report Server projects
  in your solution to the server that has been set up in each of the project’s
  properties. This will deploy all projects in your solution, so use this only when you
  need to deploy everything.