implementing-a-rendering-extension.md

title	Implement a rendering extension
description	Find out how to transform Reporting Services report data and layout information into device-specific formats by implementing rendering extensions.
ms.date	09/25/2024
ms.service	reporting-services
ms.subservice	extensions
ms.topic	reference
ms.custom	updatefrequency5
helpviewer_keywords	rendering extensions [Reporting Services] custom rendering extensions [Reporting Services] transformations [Reporting Services] extensions [Reporting Services], rendering rendering extensions [Reporting Services], implementing

Implement a rendering extension

A rendering extension is a component or module of a report server that transforms report data and layout information into a device-specific format. SQL Server Reporting Services includes six rendering extensions: HTML, Excel, Word, CSV or Text, XML, Image, and PDF. You can create other rendering extensions to generate reports in other formats.

Note

To determine which rendering extensions are available, you can view the list of installed extensions in the RSReportServer.config file.

In this section

Rendering extensions overview
Introduces how to write a custom rendering extension for [!INCLUDEssRSnoversion].

Implement the IRenderingExtension interface
Describes the attributes of a rendering extension.

Deploy a rendering extension
Describes how to deploy a rendering extension on a report server.

Remove a rendering extension
Describes how to remove a rendering extension from a report server.

Related content

• Reporting Services extensions
• Reporting Services extension library