Question

What time saving functions have you written or found for SSRS?

My main one is a safedivide function that I use wherever I think there could be a chance of a divide by zero error happening:

Function SafeDivide(value1 As Decimal, value2 As Decimal) As Decimal

        If (value1 <> 0.0 And value2 <> 0.0) Then
            Return value1 / value2
        Else
            Return 0
        End If

End Function

Are there any others that you use frequently and can share?

Answer 1

it’s simpler like this.

Function SafeDivide(value1 As Decimal, value2 As Decimal) As Decimal
        If value2 = 0 return 0
        Return value1 / value2
End Function

We have also have an in house utility which we wrote that updates all code in a project’s reports from a single code file.

My point is that you can use any .net code in SSRS, so you should investigate common libraries of useful code.