Reporting Services "Denali" Brings Export to Excel 2007

One welcome improvement in the forthcoming “Denali” release of Reporting Services is exporting to Excel 2007 (*.xlsx) file formats. I bet many companies will upgrade just to get this feature. In fact, the default rendering option when you export to Excel is to xlsx. The old Excel 2003 renderer is still there but it’s hidden by default. And, yes, BI projects now integrate with Visual Studio 2010!

For more details about Excel 2007 rendering, please read the Exporting to Microsoft Excel (Report Builder 3.0 and SSRS) topic in BOL.