SSRS Report Not Displaying in IE

Question

I'm at wits end trying to find a solution for my issues with Internet Explorer and SSRS. I have created an C# Windows Forms program that uses the WebBrowser element to display SSRS reports to the end user.

Currently there are two report options for them to choose from. One report opens and displays fine. The data set for this report takes about 2-3 seconds to retrieve. The second report is either timing out or not rendering as I get a blank screen.

I think it is timing out as opposed to not rendering because I can't even choose the export to file option. The data set for the second report only takes about 15 seconds to retrieve. I have tried altering timeouts on web.config and rsreportserver.config on the SQL Server and I have tried putting a <system.web> section into the app.config file of the ASP project, but none of that seems to have fixed the issue.

I also tried changing the sessionState value in the web.config but that doesn't seem to have done anything either. Has anyone encountered this error that can tell me what steps to take to fix the problem? My local machine is using IE9 and the server is running SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows 7.

Answer 1

The answer to this is above in the comments to my question. Don't use the WebBrowser control as it is prone to the failure of IE. I placed the ReportViewer control on there and it works correctly. Check http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa337089(v=sql.100).aspx for usage of this control.