ActiveReports provides support for web services to be used to return a dataset as a data source for a report or to return an ActiveReport document to show in a Windows Forms viewer. The following walkthroughs show how to create a simple web service for each scenario and how to create a Windows client application for each web service.
- DataSet Web Service
- Describes how to set up a simple web service that returns a dataset.
- DataSet Windows Application
- Describes how to set up a Windows client application for the dataset Web Service.
- Document Web Service
- Describes how to set up a simple web service that returns an ActiveReports document.
- Document Windows Application
- Describes how to set up a Windows client application for the ActiveReports Document Web Service.
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Important: In order to consume Web services in your Windows applications, you must set permissions to allow the ASP.NET user to consume the services. Ask your server administrator for help with this. |
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