Why is it necessary to use WINFORMS or WEBPARTS to execute a Reporting Services Report? My naive understanding is that RS is an enterprise reporting tool...
If I want to develop an OLTP application I use something different and if I need to print (via RS) I provide a button that goes to a "un" hyperlink that then provides me the rich functionality of RS.....
So it seems for sure I am missing something here - please and sinncerely give me some insight!
Best reagrds,
Joe
Sorry for the delayed posting, hopefully it can still be useful.
I'm notentirelysure I understand your post so bear with me;
In fact you don't need to use WinForms nor WebParts, you can simply provide the user a url that directly points to the report or let's say an Excel output...
Sample url for Excel output:
http://<your server>/reportserver?/<your path>/<your report name>t&rs:Command=Render&rs:Format=XML&rc:Parameters=False&rc:XSLT=<your xslt file>.xslt&rc:MIMEType=application/vnd.ms-excel&rc:FileExtension=xls
Sample url for a Report output:
http://<your server>/Reportserver?/<your path>/<your report name>&rs:Command=Render
On the other hand you can create your own custom interface to output the reports in the way you see fit, such as data-filled dropdowns or any other control. You can also have any of these controls interact with the report itself
Unfortunately that's a bit more involved and I will not detail it in this post, I may in the near future write an article on this.
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