Generate Your Dynamic Report Through Reporting Service

I have posted some articles on reporting service. Here is a sample project which will generate report dynamically. It is having an interface where you select the database in a DDL then a table or view from the selected DB and select some columns for details and group of the report. Then it will generate the report RDL and publish it to your report server. If you want to select from multiple tables with joining, you can do that also by giving your custom query.
Here are some setting which you will have to change to run the project like
string serverName = "localhost"; //The server where the report will be published.
string reportVirtualPath = "LocalReportServer"; //The virual directory path of the reportserver
string parentFolder = "QuoteReports"; //The folder where the reports will be published.
Here i am using some AppSettings val in web.config. Change those according your local settings. But in "MasterConStr" the 'Initial Catalog' value should be 'master' because this connection string is used for fetching data about DBs.
Add the web reference of the reporting service to your ptoject. You may have to change the "RSLocal.ReportService2005" AppSettings value.
Here is the link of the project http://w17.easy-share.com/1700907813.html
Here i am using sql express repoting service and my report server and database is in dame machine. If you have the Report server installed in other machine than the Database you may have some problem with the DataSource. For that pls refer to my other post Use stored credential for report created by c# code.

Use stored credential for report created by c# code

In my current project i have created an interface through which admin can generate the report he wants from any of the table (or combination of tables) from any DB in the server. The interface is generating the xml Report Defination (rdl) and publishing it with the reporting service web service.
Now the problem came with the datasource of the report. When i publish the report it was showing the username and password input box in the report viewer. If i put those it was running beautifulluy. But it was not what i wanted. None of us will bother to give the UID and password everytime. Here is the sample of code i used to generate the report

static int zIndex = 1;
string serverName = "localhost";
string reportVirtualPath = "LocalReportServer";
string parentFolder = "QuoteReports";
string dataSetName = "DSSOP";
string dataSourceName = "DynamicDataSource";
string parTabName = "bodyTable";

void deployReport(string reportName, string reportDefination)// reportDefination is the xml rdl
{
ReportingService2005 rs = new ReportingService2005();
rs.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
byte[] byteRDL;
System.Text.UTF8Encoding encoder = new UTF8Encoding();
byteRDL = encoder.GetBytes(reportDefination);
Property[] rsProperty = new Property[10];
//Property property = new Property();
Warning[] warnings;
try
{
warnings = rs.CreateReport(reportName, "/" + parentFolder, true, byteRDL, null);
}
catch (System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException ex)
{
tdMessage.InnerHtml = "Exception in publiching report.
" + ex.Message + "";
return;
}
}

I was using report-specific datasource with authentication. My sample datasource section of the RDL is below
<datasource name="Personal">
<?xml:namespace prefix = rd /><rd:datasourceid>1a234378-11f1-4dc0-bc74-91df6d7d94f7</rd:datasourceid>
<connectionproperties>
<dataprovider>SQL</dataprovider>
<connectstring>Data Source=SODC42\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=SOP;UID=sa;password=123456;</connectstring>
</connectionproperties>
</datasource>

Though i was putting the connection string with UID and password, still it was showing the textboxes for username and password.
After a lot of google i found that reporting service uses two connection strings 1) one for connection to the report server 2) another for connection the report server to the databse (In mycase the both of report server and DB server is same express version in localhost). The connection string supplied in the RDL is for the first purpose and the second connection information is stored with the DataSource information in the ReportServer DB.
Then i open the report with the reportmanager (http://localhost/reports) and edit the report. In the editor i found the datasources link where i saw the "Credentials supplied by the user running the report" radio is selected. I canged the selection to "Credentials stored securely in the report server" and gave the desired credentials. Then i saw the report is not showinf the text boxes.
Now it was clear that the problem is with the DataSource not with the RDL. Then i went with the idea of using SharedDataSource and attach it with the report. While deploying the report i was checking if the shared datasource is already existing. If not then create it. Here is the code for creating the shared datasource.

DataSourceDefinition def = new DataSourceDefinition();
def.CredentialRetrieval = CredentialRetrievalEnum.Store;
def.ConnectString = ReportConnection.GetConnection("SOP").ConnectionString;
def.Enabled = true;
def.EnabledSpecified = true;
def.Extension = "SQL";
def.ImpersonateUser = false;
def.ImpersonateUserSpecified = true;
def.WindowsCredentials = false;
def.UserName = "sa";
def.Password = "123456";
rs.CreateDataSource(dataSourceName, dataSourcePath, true, def, null);
rs.SetDataSourceContents(dataSourcePath + "/" + dataSourceName, def);

Note:Before creating you have to check whether it already exists of not. And also the folder structure.
The rdl for datasource :
<DataSources>
<DataSource Name="DynamicDataSource">
<DataSourceReference>/Data Sources/DynamicDataSource</DataSourceReference>
</DataSource>
</DataSources>
Now the report is running fine.
But still there was something hitting in my mind. Why i shall use SharedDataSource? I shall use report specific datasource. But how?
After some days lots of RnD s i found it. It is totally my assumtion. I have no idea how far it is true. But it works.
The report specific datasources you have to keep in a folder "Data Sources" in the same directory as the report and then only the report can use it. So i created the datasource in the report folder's "Data Sources" folder. And so far it is running.

Download Sample Project
For information about the project refer to my other post Generate Your Dynamic Report Through Reporting Service