Export Report to File

Iâ'm a Crystal developer who has been unsuspectingly thrust into SQL Server
Reporting Services.
I am at a loss as to how I can access report services object to export it to
a file (.PDF, .XLS, etc.) from a Windows application. (With Crystal,
ActriveReports, etc. this would be 4 or 5 lines of code.)
Anybody kow is this done for Reporting Services?
Thanks in advance for your assistance.I just finished doing something very similar. I needed to run the report
and export directly to PDF from my class lib.
Basically you must call the Reporting Services web service and use the
render method. Here is an example in C# to do something similar:
http://www.csharphelp.com/archives3/archive545.html
But your best bet is to get a copy of SQL Server Reporting Services (WROX
publishing). They have a great section that discusses this.
Be sure you deploy your Shared DataSource (if necessary) and Reports (or add
manually using the Report Manager web page) before attempting to access your
reports with the web service.
Richard
"Tom N" <TomN@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm a Crystal developer who has been unsuspectingly thrust into SQL Server
> Reporting Services.
> I am at a loss as to how I can access report services object to export it
> to
> a file (.PDF, .XLS, etc.) from a Windows application. (With Crystal,
> ActriveReports, etc. this would be 4 or 5 lines of code.)
> Anybody kow is this done for Reporting Services?
> Thanks in advance for your assistance.