BI Dev Studio Licensing

I have a client that we're hosting a website for and we have a few reports
that we've done for them. They're wanting to create and publish their own
reports now and I'm wondering what to buy. They picked up Visual Studio Standard
Edition because on the MSDN site it says Standard does Reporting Services,
but after installing it, there's no Reporting Services Project type. I tried
having them install the client tools for SQL 2005 but the installer said
Reporting Services tools were already installed, not making much sense. How
exactly do I get them the BI Development Studio and does that require another
SQL 2005 license?SQL Server 2005 is licensed by the Server. There is no license for the
development tools. Unlike RS 2000, it ships with a version of VS if it is
not installed. If you have VS 2005 installed then it will install into that.
It doesn't make sense that it says the tools are already installed. I have
VS 2005 (because I needed VB.Net) and then installed VS 2005 BI on top of
that. VS 2005 has controls for Reporting Services IF you are creating your
own website or windows app. If all you want to do is create reports what you
want to do is install the BI client tools found on the SQL Server 2005 CD.
They can uninstall VS and any BI tools they find and then try again.
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"Josh Belden" <joshuabelden@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:dee73200137b98c7f6131ce52f7c@.news.microsoft.com...
>I have a client that we're hosting a website for and we have a few reports
>that we've done for them. They're wanting to create and publish their own
>reports now and I'm wondering what to buy. They picked up Visual Studio
>Standard Edition because on the MSDN site it says Standard does Reporting
>Services, but after installing it, there's no Reporting Services Project
>type. I tried having them install the client tools for SQL 2005 but the
>installer said Reporting Services tools were already installed, not making
>much sense. How exactly do I get them the BI Development Studio and does
>that require another SQL 2005 license?
>