Hi, I have windows application in which i used report viewer control to show SSRS 2008 reports. I have all the reports which contains embedded images in it. Because of this if any of the image change I need to change all the reports. So to overcome this issue I am thinking of using external images instead of embedded images. As per initial investigation report viewer will make http request to get those images. So I have following questions on this, 1. Will there be any performance degradation issue because of this change in application (each of my images will be of small size less than 100 KB)? 2. In single report if there are duplicated images, still new http request are made to get those images or report viewer has that much intelligence to skip repeated requests? 3. Images are also used across different reports. Is there any mechanism provided by report viewer control by which I can cached those images?Thanks, Rahul Techie.

Hi Rahul, Displaying the external image should have some effect to performance, as it launch a http request, if the size of Image is more than 4MB you should also set the maxRequestLength attribute to a larger number of httpRuntime node in the Web.config files in both ReportServer and Report Manager folders to increase the limit. To your question "Images are also used across different reports. Is there any mechanism provided by report viewer control by which I can cached those images?", actually, IE exist the the cache mechanism, other report's rendering time will not contain the time retrieve the image. You could also do a test to this scenario by adding an external imge or deleting the imag on the report, then execute the report to see whether data retrieval, report processing, or report rendering have too much difference. Hope this helps. Thanks, Challen Fu Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.