The best recommendation before starting to create a report with Visual Studio is to create a report with the Report Wizard first and then export the RDL file generated by the Report Wizard to import on a Visual Studio project. By going to the Actions menu of the report you created and clicking on Download Report, you can download the RDL file.
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The Make Report Available to Organization option that appears under Download Report will do the same thing as we change the Viewable By option to Organization on the Administration tab. If the report is already set to Viewable By Organization, this option will change to Revert to Personal Report, which will be the same as setting the Viewable By option to Individual from the Administration tab.
Now you can start Visual Studio 2008 and create a new report project by performing the following steps: