Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Reporting Services Step by Step

Chapter 16. Report Authoring with Custom Development

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Use custom code in expressions.

• Create a custom data processing extension.

• Generate a report definition programmatically.

This chapter explores the types of authoring activities that you can customize. You’ll learn how to reuse custom code in your report to handle complex functions—either as embedded code or as a custom assembly. You’ll also learn how to build a custom data processing extension to read XML data and how to incorporate that data processing extension into a program that builds a report.

Using Custom Code

When you need to use a complex expression many times in a report, it’s usually easier to write the code once as a custom function, ...