Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

Chapter 22. Implementing Custom Embedded Functions

In This Chapter

• Adding Embedded Code

• Debugging Embedded Code

The simplest form of custom code available in SSRS is expressions, which were discussed in Chapter 8, “Expressions.” The next level of coding complexity is a custom embedded code in a report.

Adding Embedded Code

To get a better understanding of how embedded custom code is used in a report, report developers can assume all of the code placed in the code window gets compiled into a make-believe class called Code. You can add properties and methods to the make-believe Code class, and call class members from expressions in the report, which has the class defined.

Embedded code is compiled into a report’s intermediate format and ...