Binary parameters to stored procedures?

I have a stored procedure that takes a byte string as an argument:
CREATE PROCEDURE Reporting_TicketSelectGroups
@.publicPart NVARCHAR(400),
@.checkField BINARY(46),
@.langCode VARCHAR(9)
AS
...
I've created a DataSet with the name of the stored proc as as its query
string and with this expression as its parameter value for @.checkField:
=Code.CheckField(Parameters!ticket.Value)
This in turn refers to a function in the Code tab of the Report
Properties property sheet:
Public Function CheckField(ByVal aTicket As String) As Byte()
...
Return Convert.FromBase64String(...)
End Function
The idea is that there is a parameter called ticket and it is split in
to two parts, one part being in binary, and these two parts are then
used as parameters to the various queries used in the report. When I
attempt to preview this report, I get this error message:
An error has occurred during report processing.
Query execution failed for data set 'Groups'.
Implict conversion from data type nvarchar to binary is not allowed.
Use the CONVERT function to run this query.
I'm assuming the last two sentences come from SQL Server and indicate
that my byte[] value is being converted to string on the way -- either
that or I have stuffed it up in some way. Can anyone tell me whether
this approach should work, or is simply not possible to pass binary
parameters from RS?
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Damian CugleyI wrote:
> I have a stored procedure that takes a byte string as an argument:
> [...] Can anyone tell me whether
> this approach should work, or is simply not possible to pass binary
> parameters from RS?
I gather from the deafening silence that it is possible to pass neither
binary parameters nor other formats like UUIDs.
My workaround was straightforward enough, once I had decided to do it: I
wrote a base64 (RFC 1521) codec in T-SQL so I can pass the data safely
as a character string.