Implement a rendering extension

A rendering extension is a component or module of a report server that transforms report data and layout information into a device-specific format. SQL Server Reporting Services includes six rendering extensions: HTML, Excel, Word, CSV or Text, XML, Image, and PDF. You can create other rendering extensions to generate reports in other formats.

Note

To determine which rendering extensions are available, you can view the list of installed extensions in the RSReportServer.config file.

In this section

Rendering extensions overview
Introduces how to write a custom rendering extension for Reporting Services.

Implement the IRenderingExtension interface
Describes the attributes of a rendering extension.

Deploy a rendering extension
Describes how to deploy a rendering extension on a report server.

Remove a rendering extension
Describes how to remove a rendering extension from a report server.