Getting Started with a Custom Report Item Implementation
New: 5 December 2005
This topic will discuss the prerequisites for developing and deploying custom report items.
Development and Deployment Requirements
Developing a custom report item for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services requires the following:
- Administrative access to a server running Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with Reporting Services and Business Intelligence Development Studio.
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 with the Microsoft .NET Framework software development kit (SDK) installed.
- Access to the .NET Framework SDK documentation.
- Familiarity with component authoring and the component model namespaces in Visual Studio. For more information, see "Component Authoring" and "Component Model Namespaces in Visual Studio" on msdn.microsoft.com.
Language and Namespace Requirements
SQL Server 2005 custom report items fully support the .NET Framework. You can develop custom report items using your choice of .NET-compliant languages.
Visual Studio 2005 offers the developer many tools and features to simplify and accelerate the iterative cycles of coding, debugging, and testing and to make deployment easier. The .NET Framework SDK includes Visual Basic and C# compilers and related tools.
- Custom report items use the Microsoft.ReportDesigner and Microsoft.ReportingServices.Interfaces namespaces. These are stored in the Microsoft.ReportingServices.Designer.DLL and Microsoft.ReportingServices.Interfaces.DLL assemblies, which are installed as part of Reporting Services.
- Custom report item design-time components need to implement interfaces from the System.ComponentModel namespace in the .NET Framework. The System.ComponentModel is documented in the .NET Framework SDK documentation.
Important
By default, the .NET Framework is installed with SQL Server 2005, but the .NET Framework SDK is not. Unless the SDK is installed on the computer and the SDK documentation is included in the Books Online collection, links to SDK content in this section will not work. After you have installed the .NET Framework SDK, you can add the SDK documentation to the Books Online collection and table of contents by following the instructions in Adding and Removing Help Collections.
See Also
Concepts
Creating the Custom Report Item Run-time Component
Creating the Custom Report Item Design-Time Component
Deploying a Custom Report Item
Custom Report Item Class Libraries