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Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
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Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

by Michael Lisin, Jim Joseph
March 2006
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
480 pages
11h 17m
English
Sams
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Chapter 8. Expressions

In This Chapter

• What Is an Expression?

• Expression Syntax

• Adding Expressions

• Collections

• Using Functions

• Other Functions

• Using Expressions to Change Report Item Properties and Behavior

• Example: Placing Emphasis on Certain Values

This might come as a bit of a shock, but everything you have done up to this point has been done using expressions. Expressions are central to SSRS. In fact, they are so central, that just about everything depends on them. Every property on every report item is an expression. The designer just sets them to predefined values, instead of making them dynamic. This chapter covers making these properties dynamic, and how to use SSRS’s built-in tools to help you do so.

What Is an Expression? ...

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