Reporting Services Architecture—Rendering Extensions
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Rendering Extensions
Report Server Rendering extensions transform a report's layout and data into a device-specific format. Extensions included with RS include HTML (3.2 and 4.0), Microsoft Excel, Text/CSV, XML, Image (BMP, EMF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WMF), and PDF rendering.
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| Unlike SSRS 2000, which rendered Excel files as an MHTML file carrying special Excel metatags, SSRS 2005 renders reports to Excel's native binary format. |
Because the final rendering phase is only loosely coupled with data processing, it enables users to choose different rendering options for the same report without the need to requery data sources.
Developers can create additional custom rendering extensions.
 
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