How to create WCF Reporting service?

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Syncfusion Silverlight and WinRT ReportViewer client applications require WCF Reporting Service to View and Export RDL or SSRS reports.

Create a WCF Reporting Service:

Create a new web application in VS2010 and name it as ReportingServiceApplication.

Figure 1: Create Web Application

Add Syncfusion.Reports.Server reference and its dependent references. On the Solution Explorer, right-click References folder and then select Add Reference.

Figure 2: Adding References

Deploy the following list of assemblies with the application in WCF service.

Syncfusion.Reports.Server
Syncfusion.Core
Syncfusion.Chart.WPF
Syncfusion.Compression.Base
Syncfusion.DocIO.Base
Syncfusion.Gauge.WPF
Syncfusion.Grid.WPF
Syncfusion.GridCommon.WPF
Syncfusion.Linq.Base
Syncfusion.Pdf.Base
Syncfusion.ReportControls.WPF
Syncfusion.ReportWriter.Base
Syncfusion.Shared.WPF
Syncfusion.XlsIO.Base

Add a new WCF service file.

In order to add a WCF service, follow the steps.

Right-click on the web application under the Solution Explorer dialog and then select Add option.
Click on the New Item option.

Figure 3: Add New WCF Service

Click Web under Visual C# and Select WCF Service and name it as ReportingService.svc then click Add.

Figure 4: Adding WCF Service file

Open the newly added ReportingService.svc file.
Inherit ReportService to the auto generated ReportingService class in the file ReportingService.svc.
Remove the members and member functions of the ReportService class as follows.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.ServiceModel;
using System.Text;
using Syncfusion.Reports.Server;
namespace ReportingServiceApplication
{
    public class ReportingService : ReportService
    {
    }
}