Is SSRS using VB behind the scenes? (!=programmingQuestion)
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My cohort has created some reports and datasets in SSRS 2016 on her computer and asked me to post them on the server. No problem, we've done this many times with SSRS 2012/14, piece of cake...except it's never that easy is it? Uploading the datasets worked fine, but all three reports fail with an error (something about compiling expressions) that it can't find a file from the temp folder. :wtf: ...in each case, the file extension is .vb! :laugh: Her suggestion is for me to send screenshots so that she can find the missing temp files on her laptop and assuming they are still there, send them to me so I can put them in the server temp folder and get the reports loaded. :omg: Oh well, here goes nothing... Btw, googling for the error doesn't show too many results. Is everyone staying on 2014? Also, yes, I already tried rebooting!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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My cohort has created some reports and datasets in SSRS 2016 on her computer and asked me to post them on the server. No problem, we've done this many times with SSRS 2012/14, piece of cake...except it's never that easy is it? Uploading the datasets worked fine, but all three reports fail with an error (something about compiling expressions) that it can't find a file from the temp folder. :wtf: ...in each case, the file extension is .vb! :laugh: Her suggestion is for me to send screenshots so that she can find the missing temp files on her laptop and assuming they are still there, send them to me so I can put them in the server temp folder and get the reports loaded. :omg: Oh well, here goes nothing... Btw, googling for the error doesn't show too many results. Is everyone staying on 2014? Also, yes, I already tried rebooting!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
We use SSRS here, and I can't say I've ever seen that error. It sounds more like your SSRS server is borked, if it can't compile the expressions in the report. Or, perhaps that the reports are written for a newer version of SSRS than you have on your report server, and the report is using some operator or function the server doesn't recognize. (Remember, MS error messages are disingenuous at best, and outright lies at worst...) To answer your primary question though, yeah, SRRS uses VB. A quick look at the expression editor makes it pretty obvious (the Operators->Logical/Bitwise list is 'And', 'Not', 'Or', etc, instead of '&&', '!', '||', and so on...) Best of luck resolving your issue. In my experience, SSRS can be a bit of an elephant to get fixed when it decides it doesn't want to work properly...
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We use SSRS here, and I can't say I've ever seen that error. It sounds more like your SSRS server is borked, if it can't compile the expressions in the report. Or, perhaps that the reports are written for a newer version of SSRS than you have on your report server, and the report is using some operator or function the server doesn't recognize. (Remember, MS error messages are disingenuous at best, and outright lies at worst...) To answer your primary question though, yeah, SRRS uses VB. A quick look at the expression editor makes it pretty obvious (the Operators->Logical/Bitwise list is 'And', 'Not', 'Or', etc, instead of '&&', '!', '||', and so on...) Best of luck resolving your issue. In my experience, SSRS can be a bit of an elephant to get fixed when it decides it doesn't want to work properly...
Kyle Moyer wrote:
To answer your primary question though, yeah, SRRS uses VB. A quick look at the expression editor makes it pretty obvious
That's just syntax; does not say which enginge is used.
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My cohort has created some reports and datasets in SSRS 2016 on her computer and asked me to post them on the server. No problem, we've done this many times with SSRS 2012/14, piece of cake...except it's never that easy is it? Uploading the datasets worked fine, but all three reports fail with an error (something about compiling expressions) that it can't find a file from the temp folder. :wtf: ...in each case, the file extension is .vb! :laugh: Her suggestion is for me to send screenshots so that she can find the missing temp files on her laptop and assuming they are still there, send them to me so I can put them in the server temp folder and get the reports loaded. :omg: Oh well, here goes nothing... Btw, googling for the error doesn't show too many results. Is everyone staying on 2014? Also, yes, I already tried rebooting!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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My cohort has created some reports and datasets in SSRS 2016 on her computer and asked me to post them on the server. No problem, we've done this many times with SSRS 2012/14, piece of cake...except it's never that easy is it? Uploading the datasets worked fine, but all three reports fail with an error (something about compiling expressions) that it can't find a file from the temp folder. :wtf: ...in each case, the file extension is .vb! :laugh: Her suggestion is for me to send screenshots so that she can find the missing temp files on her laptop and assuming they are still there, send them to me so I can put them in the server temp folder and get the reports loaded. :omg: Oh well, here goes nothing... Btw, googling for the error doesn't show too many results. Is everyone staying on 2014? Also, yes, I already tried rebooting!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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