Pro SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services

CHAPTER 9  RENDERING REPORTS FROM .NET APPLICATIONS

this point and just use these methods to render the reports and to display the report parameters, toolbar,

and report. However, in this example, you want to use the SSRS 2012 Report Server Web service to get a

list of parameters for the selected report and to display them to the user in a Windows Form. To get this

list of parameters, you need to call the GetReportParameters method on the SSRS 2012 Report Server

Web service.

Figure 9-6. SSRS Viewer RVC running a locally rendered report

Using the Report Server Web Service

The SSRS 2012 Web service uses the SOAP API to allow you to call a variety of methods on the report

server and interact with them using a rich set of objects provided by the service.

There are two services that you should be concerned with in SSRS 2012. The first,

ReportingService2010, handles the management of the report server and the reports within. We will be

using this service for the remainder of the chapter. The second service, ReportExecutionService, handles

the programmatical rendering of reports without the use of a browser or report viewer.