WCF Reporitng Service
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I have developed a web application with a lot of data viewing and sorting functions, but I need to give the users the ability to request reports. The reports are quite large so they can nae sit and let them run synchronously, so I was thinking about a reporting engine allowing queueing of reports, monitoring report status (Limited status that is), and a notification when the report is done via SMTP probably, though I might choose to alert them another way, I am unsure right now. I have not worked extensively with web services, so I am drawing a bit of a blank on where to get started. I have built my service application and added the EF data model. I was thinking the next step would be to build the engine that accepts or retrieves the data and runs the reports, I am just not sure how to publish that functionality so that it can be consumed by the website. I don't need anyone to write for me, just point me in the right direction. I spent time on Google, but most of what I came up with was reference to Telerik reporting or creating a WCF data service for SSRS. Cheers, --EA