Developer's Guide: Tutorials (Reporting Services)

You can use the following tutorials to learn about the many different ways to develop Reporting Services solutions.

Tutorial: Accessing the Report Server Web Service Using Visual Basic or Visual C#

The Reporting Services Web service is the primary interface for developing against Reporting Services. This tutorial walks you through the steps to connect to the Reporting Services Web service within a Microsoft Visual Basic or Microsoft Visual C# project.

Tutorial: Generating RDL Using the .NET Framework

Report Definition Language (RDL) is an XML-based open schema for creating Reporting Services reports programmatically. This tutorial walks you through the steps to generate a report definition using the XmlWriter class.

Tutorial: Updating Reports Using Classes Generated from the RDL Schema

This tutorial walks you through the process for creating classes from the RDL schema that let you programmatically update reports.