Writing installer for reports

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Writing installer for reports

eyal sacharov

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June 14, 2005 at 6:55 am

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Hey,
I need to write an installer-like interface for publishing my reports (where the user enters the DB name etc.) I started doing it with Visual Studio .NET Install project. But how can I execute the rs.exe from such a project (presumably some sort of custom action)? Up till now I published the reports with a simple bat file but now i need it more proffesional. Anyone knows?

Thanks

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gallan-229957 SSCommitted Points: 1520 More actions · Answer 1

Hi eyal,

I too am about to make a custom installer. In .NET you can use Process() to execute rs.exe and pass variables. The problem I'm having is how to get any warnings or errors from rs.exe (whether a connection was made to the server, whether or not rs is registered etc.) because I can just see the errors from my local Process().

private void button2_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

{

p = new Process();

p.StartInfo.FileName = "rs.exe";

p.StartInfo.Arguments = "-i PublishReports.rss -s https://localhost/reportserver";

try

{

p.Start();

}

catch(Exception ex) {MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);}

}

eyal sacharov Say Hey Kid Points: 672 More actions · Answer 2

Hey,

I was told (although I haven't tried it yet...) that the Process.start() method

(or one of its overloads) actually returns the return code of the application it was running.

Might want to check that out...

Thanks,

--Eyal