How to make SSRS BOL part of the VS Help

Is there a way to make SSRS BOL included in the help documentation avalable
from with in the VS IDE? For example, in the Help Index tab have SSRS BOL
one of the filter options in the Filtered by dropdown box and use that to
lookup SSRS issues from inside the VS IDE.
Thanks.
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moondaddy@.nospam.nospamHi moondaddy,
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From your descriptions, I understood that you would like to get the
Reporting Services BOL direcly from VS IDE. If I have misunderstood your
concern, please feel free to point it out.
Based on my knowledge, we do not have these integration version of VS IDE
help or Reporting Services Help. You will have to open Reporting Services
Books Online separately.
Sincerely yours,
Michael Cheng
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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> Hi moondaddy,
> Welcome to use MSDN Managed Newsgroup!
> From your descriptions, I understood that you would like to get the
> Reporting Services BOL direcly from VS IDE. If I have misunderstood your
> concern, please feel free to point it out.
> Based on my knowledge, we do not have these integration version of VS IDE
> help or Reporting Services Help. You will have to open Reporting Services
> Books Online separately.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Michael Cheng
> Microsoft Online Partner Support
> When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so
> that others may learn and benefit from your issue.
> =====================================================> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>
>|||Hi Moondady,
You are welcome!
If you have any questions or concerns next time, don't hesitate to let me
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How to leverage custom security with ReportViewer and SSRS Web Service

My company is building a WindowsForms application that will use SSRS 2005 for it's reporting needs. The application will use ClickOnce and will run in an extranet type of environment against a centralized database designed in an "ASP" fashion with key, customer-specific tables marked with an "OrgId."

The authentication/authorization within the app will be with custom classes implementing IPrincipal and IIdentity and leveraging the built-in .NET security framework. Because of this, I have come to the conclusion that we will have to author a custom security extension for SSRS.

Now, none of this is rocket science, but we would like to use the Windows Forms ReportViewer control within our app, in conjunction with the Reporting Services Web Service and I have yet to find a decent example that illustrates how to utilize custom security extensions with the web service and the reportviewer.

Any suggestions, tips, tricks, pitfalls?

Thanks,
Matthew Belk

This stuff is in BOL, but it's not very discoverable.

Here's an example of using the SSRS Forms Auth security extension in conjunction with the ReportViewer:

http://blogs.msdn.com/bimusings/archive/2005/11/04/489100.aspx

Here's an example of using the Forms Auth Security extension with the SSRS webservice (basically, just calling LoginUser(): implemented in the security extension)

http://blogs.msdn.com/bimusings/archive/2005/08/04/447939.aspx

Hope this helps

|||Thanks for the blog pointers.

Now, the next logical question is how to leverage the custom security extensions to restrict access to various items within the SSRS space so that the custom "CheckAccess" routines from the sample code will work properly.

I'd love to let SSRS handle this, but if the answer is "You have to do that from your app," then that's OK, too.

Thanks,
Matthew Belk
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Have you explored the Forms Auth security extension sample yet? If not, I would -- You could pretty much use 60-70% of it for your purposes (authorization included)...The only changes you'd have to make is how LogonUser gets handled, etc.