Manual Package Installation for SSRS

Overview

The easiest way to install Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services library for SQL Server Reporting Services is using ConfigTool utility. However, you can install the library manually. To do this you need to:

• Select required version of Aspose.BarCode.ReportingServices.dll from Bin folder.
• Copy it to Report Server binary folder. You need to locate it, at first.
• Add proper options to rsreportserver.config and rssrvpolicy.config configuration files.

After this you can use Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services library with Report Server.

Locate dll directory

You need proper Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services library version which is matched with SQL Server Reporting Services version. You need to copy the library to Report Server binary folder. Following package folders contain SSRS versions:

• The SSRS 2008 assembly is located in the Bin\SSRS2008 directory.
• The SSRS 2008 R2 assembly is located in the Bin\SSRS2008R2 directory.
• The SSRS 2012 assembly is located in the Bin\SSRS2012 directory.
• The SSRS 2014 assembly is located in the Bin\SSRS2014 directory.
• The SSRS 2016 assembly is located in the Bin\SSRS2016 directory.
• The SSRS 2017 assembly is located in the Bin\SSRS2017 directory.
• The SSRS 2019 assembly is located in the Bin\SSRS2019 directory.
• The SSRS 2022 assembly is located in the Bin\SSRS2022 directory.

Locate and copy dll to Report Server installation directory

You need to copy proper Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services library to Report Server directory. You can locate Report Server directories by following paths:

• The SSRS 2008 binary folder is located in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS10.X\Reporting Services\ReportServer\bin directory.
• The SSRS 2008R2 binary folder is located in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS10_50.X\Reporting Services\ReportServer\bin directory.
• The SSRS 2012 binary folder is located in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS11.X\Reporting Services\ReportServer\bin directory.
• The SSRS 2014 binary folder is located in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS12.X\Reporting Services\ReportServer\bin directory.
• The SSRS 2016 binary folder is located in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS13.X\Reporting Services\ReportServer\bin directory.
• The SSRS 2017, SSRS 2019 and SSRS 2022 binary folder is located in the same C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services\SSRS\ReportServer\bin directory.

Register Visual Component

To use visual component, you need to register it in configuration file rsreportserver.config which is located in Report Server installation directory. You need to add the following rows:

<Configuration>
	<Extensions>
		<!-- Start config of Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services-->
		<ReportItems>
			<ReportItem Name="BarcodeGenerator" Type="Aspose.BarCode.ReportingServices.BarCodeReportItem, Aspose.BarCode.ReportingServices"/>
		</ReportItems>
		<!-- End of config -->
	</Extensions>
</Configuration>

Add Permission to Execute

To use visual component, you need to add execution permission. You can do this by editing rssrvpolicy.config file in Report Server installation directory. You need to add following lines to the file:

<configuration>
	<mscorlib>
		<security>
			<policy>
				<PolicyLevel version="1">
					<CodeGroup class="FirstMatchCodeGroup" version="1" PermissionSetName="Nothing">
						<CodeGroup class="FirstMatchCodeGroup" version="1" PermissionSetName="Execution" Description="This code group grants MyComputer code Execution permission. ">
							<!-- Start config of Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services-->
							<CodeGroup class="UnionCodeGroup" version="1" PermissionSetName="FullTrust" Name="BarcodeGenerator" Description="Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services">
								<IMembershipCondition class="StrongNameMembershipCondition" version="1" PublicKeyBlob="00240000048000009400000006020000002400005253413100040000010001005542E99CECD28842DAD186257B2C7B6AE9B5947E51E0B17B4AC6D8CECD3E01C4D20658C5E4EA1B9A6C8F854B2D796C4FDE740DAC65E834167758CFF283EED1BE5C9A812022B015A902E0B97D4E95569EB8C0971834744E633D9CB4C4A6D8EDA03C12F486E13A1A0CB1AA101AD94943236384CBBF5C679944B994DE9546E493BF"/>
							</CodeGroup>
							<!-- End of config -->
						</CodeGroup>
					</CodeGroup>
				</PolicyLevel>
			</policy>
		</security>
	</mscorlib>
</configuration>