I have a webservice which creates an image returns that image in the form of Byte array. I want to consume this webservice and display that image on my report. When I see my report in the Preview tab of the report designer, it displays that image but when I deploy my report on the report server, image doesn't show up. I have copied app_code.dll (dll for the webservice) to the following locations:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.3\Reporting Services\ReportServer\bin

Here is the code for the webservice:

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Imports System.Web
Imports System.Web.Services
Imports System.Web.Services.Protocols
Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.Diagnostics
Imports System.IO

<WebService(Namespace:="http://tempuri.org/")> _
<WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo:=WsiProfiles.BasicPr ofile1_1)> _
<Global.Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Des ignerGenerated()> _

Public Class Service
Inherits System.Web.Services.WebService

<WebMethod()> _

Public Function HelloWorld() As Byte()

Dim marker As New Bitmap("C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\help.gif")
Dim imageStream As New System.IO.MemoryStream
marker.Save(imageStream, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg)
Trace.Write("Before Write")
Return imageStream.ToArray()



End Function

End Class

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I have referenced this dll saved in public assemblies folder from my report project and wrote a function to call the above mentioned webservice function HelloWorld() and called the function from value property of an image control on the report.

btw, I am using SQL Server 2005 reporting services.

Does anybody has any idea what am I missing?

Thanks