FindRenderSave Sample Windows Application

© Copyright Microsoft Corporation, 2003. All rights reserved.

 
The SQL Server documentation team cannot answer technical support questions, but welcomes your suggestions and comments about this readme documentation. You can quickly and directly send e-mail feedback using the link below. All feedback must be in English. To submit written feedback about this document, click here:  Submit feedback.
 

• Overview
• Topics
• Location
• Building the sample
• Running the sample
• Notes

Overview

FindRenderSave is a sample windows application developed in Microsoft® Visual Studio™ .NET 2003. The application is based on a real-world scenario, and it demonstrates how to develop a Windows application that uses the Reporting Services Web service. The sample uses the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) API to enable you to search for reports in the report server database, to review the report properties and to render the reports to various on-disk formats.

Topics

The following bullets briefly describe the classes and technologies used by this sample.

• ReportingService Class (proxy class for SOAP API)
  • FindItem Method – Used to search a report server database for reports.
  • GetReportParameters Method – Used to evaluate whether a report requires parameterized input from the user.
  • Render Method – Used to render a report to an appropriate on-disk format.
  • CatalogItem Class – Used to store properties of items in the report server database.
  • SearchCondition Class – Used to supply search conditions to the FindItems method.
  • SoapException Class – Used to display the Detail property of any SOAP exceptions that occur.

Location

This sample is located in the Applications\FindRenderSave subdirectory of the Reporting Services samples directory.

For Example:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Reporting Services\Samples\Applications\FindRenderSave

Building the sample

In order to properly build and run this sample, the following steps need to be performed.

1. Open FindRenderSave.sln in Visual Studio .NET 2003.
2. On the Build menu, click Build Solution to build the sample application.

Running the sample

In order to properly run this sample, the following steps need to be performed.

1. Open FindRenderSave.sln in Visual Studio .NET 2003.
2. On the Debug menu, click Start to run the sample application.

Notes

The application defaults to localhost as the default report server. You should change the URL of the Web service to match that of your test report server. For more information about changing the URL, see "Setting the Url Property of the Web Service" in Reporting Services Books Online. For more detailed information about setting up and using this sample, see "FindRenderSave Sample Windows Application" in Reporting Services Books Online.