SSRS Reports Deployment Tool

This tool  deploys SSRS reports and related SQL scripts in one go without using SSRS Reports Manager or SQL Management Studio.

Listed below are the features in brief.

• Search for RDL and SQL files (including any image files) in the base directory and sub-directories and includes them in the list to be deployed.
• View/delete files from the list in the UI
• Drag/Drop files/folder from anywhere to add to the list of files to be deployed.
• Live log report that tells what's going on.
• Re-deploy only failed scripts/files.

Source Code available on GitHub

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Extending SSRS: Developing Custom Charting Components and RenderingExtensions

While it’s always possible to go completely custom and build new applications for report generation, it’s often very easy to achieve the same effect using SSRS with a few pieces of custom code plugged in at the right places.

A very informative article posted in the January 2012 MSDN Magazine. Read full article : http://bit.ly/yOLngk