Building a Generic Report Viewer

I am just learning SSRS. I am coming from a Crystal Reports background. In
the app that I am upgrading to SSRS, I had a generic report viewer that I
fed the name of the report. The viewer than opened the report pulled out
the data source and set it and passed through any selection criteria from
the app and then ran the report in the viewer.
Is this possible with SSRS?
Will the report viewer sit in the client side app and I set the processing
mode to remote? I am doing a remote app connecting through a VPN to a SQL
Server 2005 database.
Thanks
BillGWhat you want is the report viewer control (winform or webform) that ships
with VS 2005. There is no viewer control that ships with RS. You have to get
the control via VS 2005 (or VS 2008). It does exactly as you describe.
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"BillG" <billgower@.charter.net> wrote in message
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>I am just learning SSRS. I am coming from a Crystal Reports background.
>In the app that I am upgrading to SSRS, I had a generic report viewer that
>I fed the name of the report. The viewer than opened the report pulled out
>the data source and set it and passed through any selection criteria from
>the app and then ran the report in the viewer.
> Is this possible with SSRS?
> Will the report viewer sit in the client side app and I set the processing
> mode to remote? I am doing a remote app connecting through a VPN to a SQL
> Server 2005 database.
>
> Thanks
> BillG
>