ReportingService2005.GetDataSourceContents Method

Returns the contents of a data source.

Namespace:  ReportService2005
Assembly:  ReportService2005 (in ReportService2005.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Function GetDataSourceContents ( _
    DataSource As String _
) As DataSourceDefinition
'Usage
Dim instance As ReportingService2005 
Dim DataSource As String 
Dim returnValue As DataSourceDefinition 

returnValue = instance.GetDataSourceContents(DataSource)
public DataSourceDefinition GetDataSourceContents(
    string DataSource
)
public:
DataSourceDefinition^ GetDataSourceContents(
    String^ DataSource
)
member GetDataSourceContents : 
        DataSource:string -> DataSourceDefinition
public function GetDataSourceContents(
    DataSource : String
) : DataSourceDefinition

Parameters

  • DataSource
    Type: System.String
    The full path name of the data source.

Return Value

Type: ReportService2005.DataSourceDefinition
A DataSourceDefinition object that contains the connection properties for the data source. The Password field is not retrieved from the server and this property of the DataSourceDefinition object is always set to null.

Remarks

The table below shows header and permissions information on this operation.

SOAP Headers

(Out) ServerInfoHeaderValue

Required Permissions

ReadContent

Examples

To compile this code example, you must reference the Reporting Services WSDL and import certain namespaces. For more information, see Compiling and Running Code Examples. The following code example uses the GetDataSourceContents method to retrieve the data source definition of a shared data source and then displays the connection string and extension name as console output:

Imports System
Imports System.Web.Services.Protocols

Class Sample
   Public Shared Sub Main()
      Dim rs As New ReportingService2005()
      rs.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials

      Dim definition As DataSourceDefinition = Nothing

      Try
         definition = rs.GetDataSourceContents("/SampleReports/AdventureWorks")
         Console.WriteLine("Connection String: {0}", definition.ConnectString)
         Console.WriteLine("Extension name: {0}", definition.Extension)

      Catch e As SoapException
         Console.WriteLine(e.Detail.InnerXml.ToString())
      End Try
   End Sub 'Main
End Class 'Sample
using System;
using System.Web.Services.Protocols;

class Sample
{
   public static void Main()
   {
      ReportingService2005 rs = new ReportingService2005();
      rs.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

      DataSourceDefinition definition = null;

      try
      {
         definition = rs.GetDataSourceContents( "/SampleReports/AdventureWorks" );
         Console.WriteLine( "Connection String: {0}", definition.ConnectString );
         Console.WriteLine( "Extension name: {0}", definition.Extension );
      }

      catch ( SoapException e )
      {
         Console.WriteLine( e.Detail.InnerXml.ToString() ); 
      }
   }
}

See Also

Reference

ReportingService2005 Class

ReportService2005 Namespace