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A report is developed, but then the customer makes a request to have the headers visible as they vertically scroll.

What do you do?

On a recent sub-report, there were 2 rectangles to control rendering, and the page size was left @ 11 x 8.5.
The report looks fine in the Visual Studio IDE while developing the report, but if the user tried to print the report or export the report, there was a huge blank space on the page.  What fixed the issue?

We had users that were trying to export to PDF, and kept getting

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

One work around that we used was when you print the report via the print icon (not an export), change your printer to Adobe.  We are looking into the patch 2008 R2 CU6 as of April 2011 to see if that helps.

Recently an upgrade from SSRS 2005 to 2008 threw our team for a loop.  The exact connection in 2005 was working perfectly, but in 2008, the reports were failing.  What was the issue, and how did we fix it?

We have a bug/enhancement list we use to show what items have been completed, if they are bugs or enhancement, assignees, etc.
The description field is a rich text and multiple lines of text.  When the report is run, the HTML tags show up.

How did it get resolved?