Creating a backup report on the report server prob.

Hi Everybody,

I hope that someone will be able to help me with that problem. I have a .rdl file on the server (report Server). Now I need to use this .rdl, make somes changes and create a new one on the same server in another directory.

Here are the codes that do all the work;

Dim streamData As New MemoryStream(rptDefinition)

Dim doc As XmlDocument = New XmlDocument()

doc.Load(streamData)

' do the changes process here

Dim rpt As Byte() = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(doc.OuterXml)

Return rpt

I always got this error:

The report definition is not valid. Details: Name cannot begin with the '.' character, hexadecimal value 0x00.

How can I solve that?

Thanks

Hi,

I would check two things:

(1) The encoding you are using. The document might be using UTF-8, not unicode.
(2) The byte order mark. Check if the first two bytes of the array are [239] [187] (In decimal viewed through the debugger). If so remove these before returning the array.

-JonHP (MSFT)

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Hi JonHP,

It works now. I just replaced the unicode encoding with the UFT8.

Thanks a lot.