sql server 2005 reporting services question: can I have a frame around the report

I add this rectangle to the body?

>you can place controls from the Header and Footer into the rectangle too and set them to repeat on each page
How do I do that? (make the header only appear once on each page) ?

You just place the rectangle in the BODY and make it as big as you need it to be to fit the "frame". Remember to set the REPORT page size and margin properties properly so that it doesn't start printing extra pages. So if the page width is 21cm and the left and right margin is 0.5cm each, the BODY width cannot exceed 20cm otherwise RS will assume it needs to print 2 pages wide.

You will have a rectangle that is not bound to data, that is so big it can only fit once per page, if you place the controls from the header in the rectangle, they too will only appear once per page.

So your layout would be something like;

+=======Rectangle=============+
|                                                                   |
|     +-----------------------------------+             |
|      | Report name                         |             |
|     +-----------------------------------+             |
|                                                                   |
|      +--Table/Matrix/List control ------------+  |
|       |                                                        |  |
|       |                                                        |  |
|       |                                                        |  |
|       |                                                        |  |
|      +--------------------------------------------+  |
|                                                                   |
+==========================+

I tried but I can't make it work. Sample of screendump and my report file attached. Maybe I did something wrong, don't know.
Do you see any problems in the attached sample report file?

Now the frame stops when the listing stops. I want it to fill the whole page.

I'll look at the rdl file later, but from the picture your table appears to be wider than your rectangle, assuming there should be some graphics to the right.

When you paste the table inside the rectangle you should select the rectangle before pasting to ensure the table is embedded inside the rectangle.
If you did do that then your graphic may be too small. Set it to repeat to prove that.

>your table appears to be wider than your rectangle
Table x position is 0,5cm, width is 18,3 cm.
Rectangle x position is 0,25, width 21 cm.
As far as I can tell the table is not wider than the rectangle.

>If you did do that then your graphic may be too small
Attached is screenshot from Visual Studio. There you see that graphic is larger than what appear on the report preview. I also attach the sample frame graphic.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms156320.aspx says that "the rectangle grows to accommodate its contents". It looks like that is what is happens in this case.

Looks like only using lines works, see http://www.experts-exchange.com/Database/Reporting_/Q_23269962.html for sample.
Please checkout my new question there (how to avoid different results no page 1 and page 2)

I just noticed that the frame only appears on the first page, bummer.