i am trying this code .. having issue with GetReportDefinition() not found error.. i created the proxy class wsdl.exe /language:CS /n:"ReportingService2006" http://yourservername/reportserver/ReportService2005.asmx?wsdl but the class doenot have method GetReportDefinition() Error 1 'ReportingService2006.ReportExecutionService' does not contain a definition for 'GetReportDefinition' usingSystem; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.IO; using ReportingService2006; using System.Web.Services.Protocols; namespace SSRS_Report_defination { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { ReportExecutionService rs = new ReportExecutionService(); rs.Url = "http://<Server Name>" + "/_vti_bin/ReportServer/ReportService2006.asmx"; rs.Credentials = System.Net. CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials; string reportName = "http://<Server Name>/Docs/Documents" + "/AdventureWorks Sample Reports/Sales Order Detail.rdl"; byte[] reportDefinition = null; System.Xml. XmlDocument doc = new System.Xml.XmlDocument(); try { reportDefinition = rs.GetReportDefinition(reportName); MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(reportDefinition); string myDocumentsFolder = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal); doc.Load(stream); doc.Save( Path.Combine(myDocumentsFolder,"Sales Order Detail.rdl")); } catch (SoapException e) { Console.WriteLine(e.Detail.InnerXml.ToString()); } catch (IOException e) { Console.WriteLine(e.Message); } } } }

Hi, You must reference the Reporting Services WSDL and import certain namespaces. For more information, see Compiling and Running Code Examples. You can refer to below code example uses the GetReportDefinition method to retrieve the definition of a report and store it as an XML document in the local file system: using System; using System.IO; using System.Web.Services.Protocols; class Sample { public static void Main() { ReportingService2005 rs = new ReportingService2005(); rs.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials; string reportName = "/SampleReports/Company Sales"; byte[] reportDefinition = null; System.Xml.XmlDocument doc = new System.Xml.XmlDocument(); try { reportDefinition = rs.GetReportDefinition(reportName); MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(reportDefinition); doc.Load(stream); doc.Save(@"C:\Company Sales.rdl"); } catch (SoapException e) { Console.WriteLine(e.Detail.InnerXml.ToString()); } catch (IOException e) { Console.WriteLine(e.Message); } } } Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.