Running RDLC reports on Azure

After configuring and uploading the web app and its db, the ASPNET MVC worked perfectly until I tested the reports.
Started to check for answers and found a solution.

Errors that you may face, as below:-

1. Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
    
2. Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. 
   
3.  Could not find file 'D:\home\site\wwwroot\Views\Reports\ItemLabels.rdlc'. 
   
4.  Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.ReportViewer.ProcessingObjectModel, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. 

 So the errors 1,2 & 4 were clearly missing references and 3 was missing the rdlc file.

check on google and from this link on stackoverflow. I started adding one reference at a time.

so the solution was first to add new reference to the MVC web project and find the dlls from the GAC folder in "C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL\", each assemply have its own folder having different verstions, as I was using version 12, I selected that version for the below assemblies:-

• Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common.dll
• Microsoft.ReportViewer.ProcessingObjectModel.dll
• Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms.dll (was already added)
• Microsoft.ReportViewer.DataVisualization.dll

Steps: after selecting add referece, click on browse, and enter the path "C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL\", select each of the above folder and select the correct dll version for your application

On my local machine I had version 10,11 &12, 

Inside the version 12 folder there was one dll only, so I selected it.

And it appeared in the references as any dll 

All the the above need to have there property copy to local set to true.

And beware that the size of the dlls may go up to 10mb.

upload the RDLC file as I was still debugging.

The RDLC reports worked fine