SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Report Definition Customization Extensions

Question

I've been looking into report definition customization extensions (RDCE) in SQL2K8 recently and I've been at a loss to find much documentation or even chatter on the internet about it.

MSDN has a brief overview: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc281022.aspx

And the sample report from this book http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Microsoft-Server-Reporting-Services/dp/0976635313/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221629676&sr=8-2 is something, but I was wondering if anyone had real experience with this and how it worked out for them. And if anyone has other references worth looking at I'd appreciate it.

Answer 1

Normally MS publish examples on CodePlex (http://www.codeplex.com/MSFTRSProdSamples). But I didn't see any example for RDCE.

Sorry, but MS had never good documentation for reporting extensions.

Answer 2

I am not really sure what you are trying to accomplish but you can generate RDLs dynamically for SSRS Local Reports.

Check out this article from MSDN: Creating the RDL Generator Visual Studio Project

For more examples of Dynamic RDL generations, check out the downloadable sample files on this page (dynamic RDL examples are on the bottom right corner of the page): gotreportviewer? ReportViewer Control in Visual Studio 2008