Downloading SSRS report from command line

rs Utility is used to download SSRS report from command line. rs.exe is normally found under program folder.

It requires a script to download file. Lets make the name of the script download.rss. It is vb.net and it should be in .rss extension file.

Public Sub Main()
  Dim format as string = "EXCELOPENXML"
  Dim fileName as String = "E:\DownloadReport\RfsReport\Major Projects for CSOC Reporting - "+Date.Now.ToString("MM-dd-yy")+".xlsx"
  Dim reportPath as String = "/RFS Reports/Major Projects - Singleview CSOC"

  'Delete file if exists
  If System.IO.File.Exists( fileName ) = True Then
System.IO.File.Delete( fileName )
  End If

  ' Prepare Render arguments
  Dim historyID as string = Nothing
  Dim deviceInfo as string = Nothing
  Dim extension as string = Nothing
  Dim encoding as string
  Dim mimeType as string
  Dim warnings() AS Warning = Nothing
  Dim streamIDs() as string = Nothing
  Dim results() as Byte

  rs.LoadReport(reportPath, historyID)

  results = rs.Render(format,  deviceInfo, extension, _
   mimeType, encoding,  warnings, streamIDs)

  ' Open a file stream and write out the report
  Dim stream  As FileStream = File.OpenWrite(fileName)
  stream.Write(results, 0, results.Length)
  stream.Close()
End Sub

Now run the following command

c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn\rs.exe -i c:\download.rss -s http://[Report server name]/Reportserver -e Exec2005'