Custom report item implementation requirements
This article discusses the prerequisites for developing and deploying custom report items.
Development and deployment requirements
Developing a custom report item for Reporting Services requires the following criteria:
Administrative access to a server running Microsoft SQL Server with Reporting Services and SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT).
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or newer 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.
Language and namespace requirements
SQL Server custom report items fully support the .NET Framework. You can develop custom report items using your choice of .NET-compliant languages.
Visual Studio 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.