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Asked: 2026-05-16T04:01:09+00:00

I’m using Microsoft Reporting Services (SSRS) 2008 with an Extended Datareader/Dataset Provider (i.e. using

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I’m using Microsoft Reporting Services (SSRS) 2008 with an Extended Datareader/Dataset Provider (i.e. using a Datareader that I wrote myself and integrated it in SSRS). Everytime I have an update (i.e. copy the new binary files to the bin folder in SSRS), I manually have to restart the service.

I saw in IIS that the mechanism used in SSRS is similar to the IIS, but the IIS has a filewatcher and restarts automatically (or at least loads the new dlls/configs automatically) if files changed.

My question is if there is a mechanism (ideally integrated in SSRS already) that does the same for SQL Server Reporting Services 2008?

If not, what would be other options to handle this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Seeing as no one is having a go at answering I’ll have a stab. Could you not develop a small Windows service that monitors the directory for file updates using the FileSystemWatcher in .NET and then programatically restarts the SSRS service? You may be able to invoke a restart using WMI (check here). If not then you possibly could run a net stop and net start command, e.g. 

    net stop ReportServer$SQL2008
net start ReportServer$SQL2008

    You may need to change the service name to match.

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