Creating a setup file for reporting services

[Duncan Dimech]

Dear All
I am building a web based application which is using report services. As
this need to be sold to clients, I have created a setup file to make life
easier when installing the application. However I am having problem in
deploying the reports to the server as all tutorials and posts read do it
from the report builder or visual studio deploy option.

Is there a way to deploy the reports with a setup file to a report server?

Thanks in advance for any comments
Duncan

[Norman Yuan]

I think you can use RS's web services API to load the report definitions
(*.rdl) into the reporting services' meta database. In the RS's web services
API, the method is called "CreateReport()".

So, you actually need to build an small WIn form app to call the RS's web
services to load your existing reports (in the format of *.rdl) into RS.
Then you incoporate the app into your Installation Package to run run during
installation.

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Dear All
I am building a web based application which is using report services. As
this need to be sold to clients, I have created a setup file to make life
easier when installing the application. However I am having problem in
deploying the reports to the server as all tutorials and posts read do it
from the report builder or visual studio deploy option.

Is there a way to deploy the reports with a setup file to a report server?

Thanks in advance for any comments
Duncan