ActiveReports Developer provides support for web services to be used to return a dataset as a data source for a report or to return an ActiveReport document to show in a Windows Forms viewer. The following walkthroughs show how to create a simple web service for each scenario and how to create a Windows client application for each web service.

DataSet Web Service

Describes how to set up a simple web service that returns a dataset.

DataSet Windows Application

Describes how to set up a Windows client application for the dataset Web Service.

Document Web Service

Describes how to set up a simple web service that returns an ActiveReports document.

Document Windows Application

Describes how to set up a Windows client application for the ActiveReports Document Web Service.

Important: In order to consume Web services in your Windows applications, you must set permissions to allow the ASP.NET user to consume the services. Ask your server administrator for help with this.