Chapter 6. Report Designer
In This Chapter
• Two Main Report Designers from Microsoft
• Visual Studio Haves Versus Have Nots
• Solution, Project, File Hierarchy
• Generating Reports with Visual Studio
Report Designer is the main tool Microsoft provides for developers and tech-savvy information analysts to design and develop reports. This chapter begins by discussing Report Designer and how it gets installed either through Visual Studio or SQL Server Business Development Studio. Then, you use Report Designer to author your first report.
Two Main Report Designers from Microsoft
Microsoft offers two main report designers. The first one is Microsoft SQL Server Report Designer, or simply Report Designer, integrated with Visual Studio. Starting ...
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