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Follow this guide to deploy ActiveReports Standard Edition Web projects to your Web server. For Web projects using the Professional Edition WebViewer, see Deploy Web Applications (Pro Edition).

To deploy your ActiveReports Web projects, you must have access to the Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 or higher and the coordinating version of ASP.NET. You must also have access to Internet Information Services version 5.1 or 6.0, and you need administrative access to the server. For examples of how to create ActiveReports Web projects, see the walkthroughs linked at the bottom of this topic.

To add referenced DLLs to your project

1. In the Visual Studio Solution Explorer, if the References node is not showing, click the Show All Files button. 
2. Expand the References node, and select one of the ActiveReports references.
3. In the Properties window, change the CopyLocal property to True. The corresponding DLL is stored in the Bin folder of your project.
4. Set the CopyLocal property to True for each ActiveReports reference used in your project.

To install prerequisites on the server

Follow Microsoft's instructions to install each of the following on your Web server:

• The Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 or higher
• Internet Information Services (IIS) version 5.1 or 6.0
• ASP.NET version 2.0 or higher (must be the same version as the Framework)

To copy your project to the server

1. Copy the entire directory containing your project to the server.
2. If your project is in a virtual directory on your local machine (i.e. C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\YourProject), you must set up a virtual directory in IIS on the server as well.

To set permissions on the server

Depending on your project, you may need to set permissions to allow ActiveReports access to data or folders.

Some examples of required permissions on the server

• If you are saving files (i.e. PDF or RDF) to a folder on Windows XP or 2000 machines, the ASPNET user ID needs Write access to that folder.
• Windows 2003 is user configurable, so use the name assigned to the ASPNET user instead.
• If your application reads anything from any folder, assign Read access to it.
• If your reports run on any networked data source (i.e. SQL, Access, etc.) assign Read access to it.
• If you use CacheToDisk, assign IsolatedStorageFilePermission to it.