Entries tagged 'reporting-services' ↓

Christa Carpentiere has done yet another implementation of reporting off an ADO.Net Dataset but this time it's in an MSDN article , and it's in both VB.Net and C#. This one add something interesting though, as it also shows how you might call an external assembly to generate the DataSet....

New MSDN article on Custom Data Processing Extension →

Toby Riley emailed me to alert me to his extension that can take a select query and execute it against any DB using a connection string as a parameter and pass the data back to the designer: http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/appworld Another blogger of note has also come online , lead developer for the...

More on Data Processing Extensions →

In my previous post I stated that I had succeeded in converting a Reporting Services Data Processing Extension for reporting on ad-hoc data from a serialized ADO.Net DataSet into VB.Net. I have since extended this with an extra parameter (IDataParameterCollection) to allow the report designer to define...

Custom DataProcessing Extensions - problem with the Refresh Fields button? →

Having decided to use Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) as a company-wide document repository I'm thinking I'm probably going to need to report on the documents and list content (in combination with data from other enterprise systems) and not just rely on SharePoint Search, so Reporting Services seems...

A WSS Data Processing Extension for Reporting Services? →

I had been reading in Bryan Keller's post "How hard is it to write Reporting Services Extensions?" The documentation for Reporting Services includes a sample, however, that sample does not cover the use of data extensions that handle parameters. This is the only area where it gets confusing. Hopefully...

Reporting Services - using parameters with Data Processing Extensions →

In reply to Tom Rizzo 's post Bryant Likes questions why you would want to export a report to XML, and Tom provides a useful reply. I'd like to add how I found this feature useful too: Lets say you have a report where, for the sake of readbility, you have indented some of the text, and you also have...

Reporting Services: Why export to XML? →