Question

I have a report that shows all errors (if there are any) from a process that runs every day.
At the end of the process, I want to write some code to execute the report and email it. I am seeing how to email a report from code, but I can’t seem to find anywhere that shows how to run the report from code.
I am using C# in vs 08, and the report is from ssrs 08. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

I ended up creating a new subscription to the report which creates a job.
I ran the job from code that executes the job(Taken from Microsoft)

Like this:

SqlConnection jobConnection;
        SqlCommand jobCommand;
        SqlParameter jobReturnValue;
        SqlParameter jobParameter;
        int jobResult;

        jobConnection = new SqlConnection("myconnectionstring");
        jobCommand = new SqlCommand("sp_start_job", jobConnection);
        jobCommand.CommandType = System.Data.CommandType.StoredProcedure;

        jobReturnValue = new SqlParameter("@RETURN_VALUE", SqlDbType.Int);
        jobReturnValue.Direction = ParameterDirection.ReturnValue;
        jobCommand.Parameters.Add(jobReturnValue);

        jobParameter = new SqlParameter("@job_name", SqlDbType.VarChar);
        jobParameter.Direction = ParameterDirection.Input;
        jobCommand.Parameters.Add(jobParameter);
        jobParameter.Value = "name of the subscription job";
        jobConnection.Open();
        jobCommand.ExecuteNonQuery();
        jobResult = (Int32)jobCommand.Parameters["@RETURN_VALUE"].Value;
        jobConnection.Close();

        switch (jobResult)
        {
            case 0:
                Console.WriteLine("SQL Server Agent job, RunSISSPackage, started successfully.");
                break;
            default:
                Console.WriteLine("SQL Server Agent job, RunSISSPackage, failed to start.");
                break;
        }
        Console.Read();

By calling the job- which is a subscription – the report was rendered and emailed to the subscription recipients.