Business Intelligence Development Studio

i have just installed the SQL Server 2005 eval version to try the Business Intelligence. However, when i click on the Business Intelligence Studio link it starts looking for a file devenv.exe and reports that the file is not found. I have searched for the file and it does not exisits. I have made sure that I selected ALL the components at the time of installation. So although the link to Business Intelligence appears, it is not there. My question is that do i need to install Visual Studio to make this work? I already had Visual Studio 6 - VSS only on the machine.

Regards,

Haris

Hello,

I just spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out why this was happening to me. I installed all components using the developer

edition and when i tried to use BIDS from the start programs Business Intelligence Studio link / menu option it could not find

devenv.exe.

I tried to reinstall but the instal reported that everything was installed OK !

On the second disk I found a file called vs_setup.msi, I did an install and after some time the install completed and I was able

to work with BIDS after the install completed.

Hope this helps.

thank you