Monday, March 26, 2012

Is it possible to fire a WinForms app from SSRS?

Heya,

Imagine I've got a report with an 'Edit' button to the right of each record.

When the button gets clicked, I'd like to fire a WinForms app on the remote computer.

Is this possible? I'm thinking that I'd have to use the ReportViewer control, but I'm not sure...

Thanks for the insight.

Justin

One way you can accomplish this is to add hyperlink navigation to your "Edit" textbox. It can call a web page and pass in information identifying the data the user wants to edit. You can then either edit that information on a web page and redirect back to a refreshed view of the report. If you want a WinForms app, you can have that web page fire off a .net application (like we do with Report Builder), an embedded activex control, or an external application.

Thanks, Donovan.

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