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My old laptop crashed. I have to migrate everything to a new one. Everything seems to be working fine, except some rdl reports are opening only in xml mode. I tried copying every thing in new folder, start new Report project, adding the troubled report again. Also tried explicitly opening it design mode. Nothing works. Please help. What surprise me that only some reports behave like this, some are fine.
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My old laptop crashed. I have to migrate everything to a new one. Everything seems to be working fine, except some rdl reports are opening only in xml mode. I tried copying every thing in new folder, start new Report project, adding the troubled report again. Also tried explicitly opening it design mode. Nothing works. Please help. What surprise me that only some reports behave like this, some are fine.

SSRS Report file does not open in design mode in BIDS 2008

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is a server-based report generation software system from Microsoft. It can prepare and deliver a variety of interactive and printed reports and is administered via a web interface or its web service. Its web services interface also supports the development of custom reporting applications. Finally, SSRS can also be integrated with SharePoint. SSRS competes with other business intelligence tools, most prominently Crystal Reports.

SSRS

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. Major improvements include the  Always On technologies and support for unstructured data types.