title: Can I load images for SSRS rdl file from another report project or another folder within solution?
body: <p>i have a problem with rendering image on RDL file in reporting services (SQL 2008).</p>
  
  <p>I have embedded, external, database as a method of rendering images.</p>
  
  <p>In fact, I know those three option but...</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>I don't think it's a good idea to use embedded. if I have 200+ that use the same image as a report logo or something then it will be better if all report can use the same link to one image. so when i make change with image, I don't have to modify all of reports in my solution.</p></li>
  <li><p>I couldn't use database as an image source because I couldn't create any table to store the images.</p></li>
  <li><p>It seems that the only choice left is <strong><em>external</em></strong></p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>the folder structure in solution will be something like below</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8NB2G.jpg" alt="alt text"></p>
  
  <p>So my question is</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Can we load an images by writing some kind of c# library class to get path of those images in share folder?</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>or </p>
  
  <p><strong>2. If i choose to embed image into report3.rdl, can report1.rdl get images from report3.rdl?</strong></p>
  
  <p>any idea will be welcome. I'm at the dead end now.</p>
  
  <p>please advise me.</p>
  
  <p>Sorry for my poor English and Thank you in advance for your help
  vee</p>