Error when deploying a report

I hope someone can help. I'm new to reporting services 2005, and I'm currently going through Microsoft's tutorial.

I can build a report no problem. But when it comes to deploying the report to a web page, the following message appears:

Build started: Project: Reporting Services Tutorial, Configuration: Production
Build complete -- 0 errors, 0 warnings
Deploy started: Project: Reporting Services Tutorial, Configuration: Production
Deploying to http://localhost/reportserver
Error : Response is not well-formed XML.
Deploy complete -- 1 errors, 0 warnings
========== Build: 1 succeeded or up-to-date, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========
========== Deploy: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========

This "reponse is not well-formed XML" error also occurs when I try to expand any of the folders from a "reporting services" server type in management studio.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers

Richard Powell

are you able to view the xml of the report in Visual Studio?

(right click on the file in solution explorer and select 'view code')

at least this will confirm that the report is well formed.

have you managed to corrupt the css for report manager?

I can but empathise, i'm getting mighty sick of this product..|||

Hello Adolf

I am able to view the XML code after choosing "view code" in solution explorer.

What do you mean by a css in report manager? I did say I was new to this.

Richard

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For future reference, I have got this working now. When deploying the same report another time, a different error message appeared. Which was something like "The report server cannot decrypt the symmetric key used to access sensitive or encrypted data in a report server".

To stop this appearing, run "reporting services configuration" and connect to the appropriate server. Then click on "encryption keys" and click on the delete button that is under "delete encrypted content". After doing that, I am now able to deploy reports.