Thursday, November 6, 2008

SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 on Vista : "RsClientController is undefined"

When working with the Sql Server 2008 Reporting Services web control on a Vista workstation, I was receiving a JavaScript error message: "RsClientController is undefined".

First, I thought to check the Handler Mappings, since I've experienced a similar problem with the .axd extension not being mapped properly. No luck. The mapping existed, and was set properly.

After investigating, and digging into the problem a little deeper, it would seem the solution is to add a mapping specifically for the Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd

These are the steps:
1. Open Internet Information Services (IIS Manager)
2. Select your reporting site
3. Click on the "Add Managed Handler" from the actions

4. Enter the information for your new handler:

5. Click 'OK'

Resources:
Deployed reports have javascript errors?
Javascript Error When trying url access
SQL Server Web Report Viewer Issues on Longhorn/IIS7

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Thanks for the information!

Also I found that (under IIS 7) this method simly inserts a line to the web.config files system.webServer/handlers section (instead of system.web/httpHandlers):

add name="Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd" path="Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd" verb="*" type="Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.HttpHandler, Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" resourceType="Unspecified" preCondition="integratedMode" /

i trimmed the begin/close tags for sure display :)

Asad said...

THanks a lot !!!