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Calling a Custom External Assembly from a Report

One of the most powerful features of Reporting Services is the ability to call code from within a report. Before we get to that, you may or may not know you can call the .net Framework from within the expression of an objects property on a report. However, Read More...

SRS Filters

I have found a lot of students and clients are not getting the most out of filters in there reports. So I thought I would explain a bit about how useful they can be. There are two places you can put a filter in a report. Data Region (Table, Matrix, List, Read More...

Removing unwanted space in a report

There is a little trick in Reporting services that is not easy to find. I created a report for a client that included an external class which parsed a stream of XML and returned various data from the XML for display in the report. The nature of the data Read More...

Duplicated Parameters in SRS Dataset

It's time I logged this hear so I can remember what the problem is when I get it. :) When using a Stored Procedure in a Dataset in Reporting Services, Have you ever seen double the parameters on the refresh dialog in the Data Tab? They are actually listed Read More...

Reporting Services Special Directories

Where to put a report so that it shows up in the New Item Dialog as a template: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Report Designer\ProjectItems\ReportProject Where to put a custom class so it can be found by Report Server C:\Program Files\Microsoft Read More...

Parameter Collection MultiValue not implemented yet

The Parameter collection in Reporting Sevrices has a boolean property called MultiValue. I wanted to use this so we could tell the front end that the user should be able to return multiple values for this parameter. There is no where to set this value Read More...

Reporting Services - Report Parameter - Available Values

I would like to interrupt my discussion of how to create an inbox at this time to point out a potentially annoying feature/defect in the ValidValues collection in Reporting Services. When you add parameters to the report you can add a list of Valid Values. Read More...

Creating an inbox

I have spent a fair bit of time on Reporting Services news groups lately. I have seen several people asking how to generate reports and go back and render them later. I'll do this via multiple blog entries mostly because I'm too tired to write the whole Read More...