Developing and Testing Reports in Visual Studio

After you create your report project and add the report in Visual Studio, as explained earlier, you are ready to start modifying the report. To test the report quickly, you must fix the dataset’s connection strings to point to your CRM Server database. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Open the report you want to edit, go to the Report Data Explorer, and expand the Data Sources node. You will see there is a data source created with the name of CRM, as shown in Figure 11.89.

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FIGURE 11.89 CRM shared data source.

2. Double-clicking the CRM data source will show the Data Source Properties dialog, as ...

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