SQL Server Reporting Services Service Pack Released!
You can get it here.
SP1 includes a variety of improvements to the inital product release. Documentation for this release is provided in the SP1readme_lang.htm file which can be downloaded below or found in the Reporting Services installation directory after Setup is complete
Key Functional Enhancements
- Excel rendering extension has been improved and now supports viewing in Excel 97 and 2000.
- PDF rendering extension is more robust and has better performance.
- Chart control provides more control over display styles.
- References to external URLs (images and resources) from within a report are now supported.
- Data caching behavior for report preview is now supported.
- Newline in expressions is now supported.
- The style of the HTML Viewer toolbar can now be modified through a style sheet.
- New URL parameters offer more options for customizing report presentation at run time
- Report Manager proxy persists authentication cookies so that they can be used by custom security extensions.
- Hidden parameters are now supported.
- Temporary snapshots can be compressed as well as stored on the file system.
- Integrated security support for accessing report data sources can be disabled.
Very cool! The chart control feature was really needed.