Deploy Failed after Upgrade: 'Error: Value cannot be null'

[pabowen]

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

I am unable to deploy any report from Visual Studio 2005 since I upgrade my Report Server. (2000 to 2005).

When I select the either the project, the individual report, or the data source I receive:

------ Build started: Project: Report Project3, Configuration: Debug ------
Error: Value cannot be null.
========== Build: 0 succeeded or up-to-date, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========
========== Deploy: 0 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========

I have searched everywhere and cannot figure out what value is null that this references. Is there a log somewhere that provides more detail?

The report has No parameters.

In the project properties it lists the following values.
StartItem: (null)
OverwriteDataSources: False
TargetDatatSourceFolder: Data Sources
TargetReportFolder: Test
TargetServerURL:

http://myserver/reportserver

I would really appreciate any advice on where to go next, as I am stumped.

Thanks!
Patrick

 

[pabowen]

Well, I never recieved a response, so I continued to work and ended up opening a ticket with Microsoft.

I was succesfull in stumping Microsoft for the most part.

We were able to resolve the problem, but without a perfect answer as to what was causing it.

Microsoft indicated that the error I was presenting had to do with the workspace that the project was assigned to. However it wasn't assigned to any. On Microsoft's recommendation I uninstalled VS2005, and VS2003 which I also had installed. I then uninstalled my source safe client, and all VS components that were installed.

Once done with that I started reinstalling, starting with VS2005. This seems to have resolved the problem as I am now able to deploy. Please note I had previously uninstalled and reinstalled VS2005 by itself and this did not resolve the situation.

Thanks,
Patrick