Tuesday 12 April 2011

Generating PDF or Excel or Image reports programmatically(C#, VB, .Net Same code can be Changed) using SQL Server Reporting Services in C#

Introduction

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2005 is the latest version of the reporting technology from Microsoft. This article explains a way to create PDF reports programmatically using web services exposed by SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 in C#.

Using the code

First create a report which accepts boolean as its input parameter, and deploy that to the reporting server. The code below explains how to render the report in PDF format programmatically, using C#.
  • Step 1: Create and deploy the report.
  • Step 2: Add a web reference to the web services exposed by Reporting Services 2005, i.e., ReportExecution2005 and ReportService2005.
  • Step 3: Declare the following variables:
    private rs2005.ReportingService2005 rs;
    private rsExecService.ReportExecutionService rsExec;
  • Step 4: Initialize the web services and set the authentication for the web services.
    // Create a new proxy to the web service
    
    rs = new rs2005.ReportingService2005();
    rsExec = new rsExecService.ReportExecutionService();
    
    // Authenticate to the Web service using Windows credentials
    
    rs.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
    rsExec.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
    
    // Assign the URL of the Web service
    
    rs.Url = http://yourSSRSserver/ReportServer + 
             "$REPORTSERVER2005/ReportService2005.asmx";
    rsExec.Url = http://yourSSRSserver/ReportServer + 
                 "$REPORTSERVER2005/ReportExecution2005.asmx";
  • Step 5: Write code to render the report in PDF format.
    // Prepare Render arguments
    
    string historyID = null;
    string deviceInfo = null;
    string format = "PDF";
    Byte[] results;
    string encoding = String.Empty;
    string mimeType = String.Empty;
    string extension = String.Empty;
    rsExecService.Warning[] warnings = null;
    string[] streamIDs = null;
    
    // Default Path;
    
    string fileName = @"c:\samplereport.pdf";
    
    // Define variables needed for GetParameters() method
    
    // Get the report name
    
    string _reportName = @"/MyReports/Report";
    string _historyID = null;
    bool _forRendering = false;
    ParameterValue[] _values = null;
    DataSourceCredentials[] _credentials = null;
    ReportParameter[] _parameters = null;
    
    try
    {
      // Get if any parameters needed.
    
      _parameters = rs.GetReportParameters(_report, _historyID, 
                    _forRendering, _values, _credentials);
    
      // Load the selected report.
    
      rsExecService.ExecutionInfo ei = 
            rsExec.LoadReport(_reportName, historyID);
    
      // Prepare report parameter.
    
      // Set the parameters for the report needed.
    
      rsExecService.ParameterValue[] parameters = 
             new rsExecService.ParameterValue[1];
    
      // Place to include the parameter.
    
      if (_parameters.Length > 0 )
      {
        parameters[0] = new rsExecService.ParameterValue();
        parameters[0].Label = "verzamelgroepAP";
        parameters[0].Name = "verzamelgroepAP";
        parameters[0].Value = "true";
      }
      rsExec.SetExecutionParameters(parameters, "en-us");
      results = rsExec.Render(format, deviceInfo, 
                out extension, out encoding,
                out mimeType, out warnings, out streamIDs);
    
      // Create a file stream and write the report to it
    
      using (FileStream stream = File.OpenWrite(fileName))
      {
        stream.Write(results, 0, results.Length);
      }
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
      MessageBox.Show( ex.Message);
    }

For generating Other Report Formats(Eg: Excel, Images etc) one can simply change the beow code
string format = "PDF";

string fileName = @"c:\samplereport.pdf";

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