Report in Report Manager (server) does not look the same way that it looks in the Visual Stu

I am using SSRS 2005 and my server is a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Service Pack 1.

Most of the differences between VS and Report Manager are formatting differences. Borders won't show up, scrolling does not work etc. Is there something i need to upgrade on the server.

Last thing but not the least. Everytime i change something in regards to the parameters i need to delete the report from the report manager and deploy in order for the change to appear on the Report Manager. Is there a fix for this?

Could somebody please help me with these?

1. differences in rendering between design-time and run-time -- the renderer used in Report Designer is quite different than the renderer used in Report Manager. The Designer renderer is GDI-based, whereas the Report Manager renderer is HTML-based. There are many differences between these renderers, including handling of overlapping items, borders, and pagination.

2. changes to parameters made at design-time require deletion and republishing -- this is an artifact of our "server wins" philosophy. Since you can change parameter characteristics in the Report Server after a report has been published 9and therefore which may conflict with the characteristics stored in the RDL), it is indeterminate which version of the parameters a user expects to be persisted -- do you expect customizations made after publishing to dominate, or does republishing dominate? We chose to go with the server's version of parameters. Note that if we chose the other way, you would lose server-based parameter customizations everytime you republished an RDL. Admittedly it it would be nice to give users control over this, like with an RDL-based design-time option to choose which parameter collection dominates, or a publish-time option so you could choose one or the other at publish time.

|||You mean there is no way i can reproduce my params changes in the report manager with out deleting the report itself. Everytime i do that it deletes all the subscriptions on my report. Isn't there any work around?|||

Go ahead and republish the RDL, but don't bother making changes to the parameter properties in Report Designer -- just make them directly in the Report Manager or Management Studio UI.

If you need to change the # or name of the parameters, that will have to be done in Report Designer.