SQL Server Reporting Services SP1 Released

SQL Server Reporting Services SP1 Released June 24th, 2004

Vinod Kumar

Was waiting to hear from MS on this. Download the same from MSDN Downloads.

Key enhancements from the Site:

Excel rendering extension has been improved and now supports viewing in Excel 97 and 2000.
Have been waiting to hear this news from MS. Good work RS Team. A restriction to support till XP was something I wanted a change
PDF rendering extension is more robust and has better performance.
Chart control provides more control over display styles.
Cutomizing chart control … Hmmm interesting and a long time requirement tooo by many.
References to external URLs (images and resources) from within a report are now supported.
Data caching behavior for report preview is now supported.
And handy performance point of view requirement.
Newline in expressions is now supported.
Ahh!!! Cant think of a specific requirement here.
The style of the HTML Viewer toolbar can now be modified through a style sheet.
Wow!!! Was expecting this requirement from customers who would like to have skins type UI.
New URL parameters offer more options for customizing report presentation at run time
Report Manager proxy persists authentication cookies so that they can be used by custom security extensions.
Hidden parameters are now supported.
Handy feature to say.
Temporary snapshots can be compressed as well as stored on the file system.
Would like to play with this thing. Having Snapshots itself is a temporary output storage wrt to a time frame. Will want to see what is that this feature is to offer.
Integrated security support for accessing report data sources can be disabled.