Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

Chapter 23. How to Create and Call a Custom Assembly from a Report

In This Chapter

• Strong-Named Custom Assemblies

• .NET Security Primer for a SSRS Administrator

• Assemblies That Require Other Than Execute Permissions

• Debugging Custom Assemblies

SSRS comes with a comprehensive set of functions that can be used within reports. However, you might need to add custom functionality that is not covered by the set of common functions or is too complicated for embedded code to handle efficiently. Second, if you, as a developer, are hard set on C# as a language of choice, a custom assembly is the way to go. A couple of examples of functionality that are better handled by a custom assembly are encryption and trend analysis.

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