Chapter 26. Writing Custom Reporting Services Extensions

In This Chapter

• Common Considerations for Custom Reporting Services Extensions: Implementation, Deployment, and Security

• Delivery Extension

• Interactions Between User, SSRS, and a Delivery Extension

SSRS is designed for extensibility. In the previous chapters, you learned how to extend SSRS’ reporting capabilities by writing a custom code that can be called from a report. Extensions, on another hand, are called by SSRS. Extensions are composed of four key categories: security, delivery, data processing, and rendering (see Chapter 3, “Reporting Services Architecture,” Figure 3.1).

Typical extensions installed with SSRS are as follows:

Data processing—Microsoft SQL Server, OLE DB ...

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