Report Service 2005 with VS.NET 2003 ASP.NET application

I am very new to reporting services.

Can anyone kindly summarise the ways you can access report services report in a VS.NET 2003 web project? I can only find crystal report components

Thanks in advance

Hi,

the easiest way is to create a proxy class for RS. You don′t have to do this on your own, simply create a web reference to Reporting Services. In the background the WSDL from the ReportServer is consumed and a proxy class generated. Now, you can use every SOAP API that Report Server offers for rendering the reports, more on that can be found in the tutorials of the BOL.

HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.

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Thanks very much for your reply.

What I need to do is build up a website which can show Reporting Service Reports, ideally I can add the Report Viewer and Report Explorer onto the web page. I have to use web services to realise this (in VS.NET 2003), don't I?

Thanks in advance if anyone can reply.