Custom Assembly Reference in SSRS 2008, SQL Server 2014 and Visual Studio 2015

Question

I have a report project with 20 reports. Some of the reports are referencing a custom dll. I have copied that dll in the two mandatory folders

1.C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS12.MSSQLSERVER\Reporting Services\ReportServer\bin

2.C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies

My problem is whenever I make a code change, I need to copy again, the assembly to the folders above, and go through the reports one by one. Is there a clever way, the reference of the assembly inside the .rdl, to refresh automatically?

Answer 1

In the properties of your Visual Studio project you can define post build steps (tab build events). This steps are executed every time after building new versions.

There you define some commands like xcopy .