<p>Reading <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345265.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MSDN</a> (and other sources) about custom report items (CRI) for reporting services 2005. It looks like I'm limited to generating a bitmap. Not even with some mapping overlay for detecting mouse clicks on it. Is there away to go around this? There are two things I would like to do:</p>

<ul>
<li>Embed HTML directly into the report, to format dynamic text.</li>
<li>Embed flash (swf) control in the report. This could be done with HTML if the previous point is possible. But maybe there is another way</li>
</ul>

<p>Any suggestions? What am I missing?</p>

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