Reporting Services Web Service

Creating a Web Reference

To use a web service, you need to create code that knows how to send data to and retrieve data from that web service. Fortunately, this code is generated for you by Visual Studio through the process of creating a web reference. Once the web reference is in place, you can call the methods of the web service the same way you call the methods of a local .NET assembly.

Two web service interfaces are provided for Reporting Services: the ReportService2005 web service and the ReportExecution2005 web service. The ReportService2005 web service enables you to manage Reporting Services. The ReportExecution2005 web service lets you execute reports.

Here are the steps for creating a web reference: ...

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