title: How to include inline (not linked) images in SSRS e-mail reports?
body: <p>I have multiple SSRS 2008 report templates that contain embedded images and these are currently visible as expected in any report manager previews (using rendering extension HTML 4.0). However, I need these reports to be sent out as HTML e-mails.</p>
  
  <p>I believe the basic/easiest technique here is to attach the images as inline base64 string to the image tags in the HTML. Is there a way to do this automatically in SSRS or alternatively what is the best practice to achieve this or similar result (i.e. images as attachments resulting in not-too-interoperable MHTML instead of pure HTML)?</p>
  
  <p>The e-mail must be displayed as-is without connecting to any external storage (i.e. it's not feasible to host the images by the sender). Additionally we won't be using the SSRS itself to send the resulting HTML/e-mails so any restrictions of such nature are not of concern.</p>
  
  <p>Example of the inline base64 I was thinking:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;img src="data:image/png;base64,xxxxxxxx==" alt="Some Image"&gt;
  </code></pre>