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use existing SSRS Reports in a Visual C# app using Visual Studio 2010


I have several reports built inside a project named SSRS and would like access to those reports inside a different Visual C# project (VS 2010). What would the proper way to handle this be?

My thoughts were to try to add the SSRS project to the solution but I cannot seem to find a way to reference it in the C# WinForm project. Maybe I am going about this wrong. This is the first time I have ever built reports and tried to use them in an application.

End result will be using a reportViewer control docked in its own windows form for display of the report.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. I have looked around and most the info points to older versions of VS and/or SQL Server. BTW I used SQL Server 2012 SQL Server Data Tools to create the reports.


Solution

  • In order to accomplish this I needed to recreate the reports as .rdlc files inside the project and created a datasource inside the app to use.