Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Reporting Services Step by Step

Chapter 17. Programming Report Server Management

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Use the rs utility (Rs.exe) to manage Report Server contents.

• Create a Microsoft Windows application to search and update Report Server Contents.

• Use Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes to review and update configuration settings.

As you learned in Chapter 16, "Report Authoring with Custom Development," the Reporting Services application programming interface (API) allows you to customize all stages of the reporting life cycle. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to build a few alternatives to Report Manager for managing Report Server. In fact, anything you can do with Report Manager can be done programmatically by taking advantage of any ...