>>Hi Kevin,
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>>no, I didn't realise I don't need it. How do I access the reports if it's not on my machine?
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>>You can still deploy reports to your localhost (e.g. deploy to http://localhost/reportserver) and then go view them using the report manager (e.g. http://localhost/reports).
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>>SSRS 2008 Report Server uses the SQL Server network stack directly, and is no longer hosted in IIS.
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>Thanks,
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>where would you suggest I start learning about this (Reporting Services and how to incorporate reports in a web forms application and how to deploy them)? All the books look kind of old and I'm having trouble sifting through all the google search results.

What type of web form application?

I would first learn about the local reportviewer control:
http://www.gotreportviewer.com/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brianhartman/