Are SRS 2005 Reports Backwards Compatible?

I have a customer that is running SRS 2000 and unfortunately I only have SRS
2005 and Visual Studio 2005 in a test environement. Is it possible to
develop the reports in SRS 2005 and save them somehow that they can be
deployed on a 2000 instance of SRS?
If not, can I create the reports on in Visual Studio 2005 while I am hitting
their SRS 2000 instance?No on both accounts.
RS 2000 report designer only runs in VS 2003.
Theorectically you could hand edit the RDL and remove RS 2005 specific
elements but I wouldn't want to try to do that.
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"Jack Bender" <JackBender@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a customer that is running SRS 2000 and unfortunately I only have
>SRS
> 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 in a test environement. Is it possible to
> develop the reports in SRS 2005 and save them somehow that they can be
> deployed on a 2000 instance of SRS?
> If not, can I create the reports on in Visual Studio 2005 while I am
> hitting
> their SRS 2000 instance?