"Martin Widmer" <martin.wid***@businessnet.de> wrote in message
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> Hi guys
>
> I am looking for the best way to generate new reports with reporting
> services for SQL server 2005. The reports will be generated
> programmatically
> from a .Net VB application. So far I see the only way to do it is to
> feature
> my objects (text blocks, pictures, tables drawn from excel and databases
> etc.) with a "render to RDL"- function and thus create an RDL definition
> of
> the report, then push that one to the server using the reporting web
> service.
>
> I found though on the MSDN site the
> "Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportRendering" name space, which seems to
> be
> there for extending the reporting services features. Instead of writing
> code
> to produce RDL, isn't there a way to use that object model to create a new
> report using something like this?:
>
> Dim repIt as new Microsoft.ReportingServices.Report
> Dim imgIt as new Microsoft.ReportingServices.Image
>
> 'Adjust properties of image here, and load it
>
> repIt.Add(imgIt)
>
> 'More of the same
>
> 'Deploy and use the report
>
> Am I thinking totally wrong, or how could I do more elegant than producing
> RDL with my application? I prefer to use the proper object model than
> producing RDL.
>
> I am happy for any hints in this matter.
>
> Martin
>
>
>