9.3. Data Exchange Formats
The two remaining export or rendering formats provided by Reporting Services are data exchange formats. They are intended to take the data in a report and put it into a format that can be used by another computer program. In this section, we look at the basic structure of each of these formats. We also discuss the customization that can be done with each format.
We continue to use the RenderingTest report from the Chapter09 report project to examine the data output by each format.
9.3.1. Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Data Exchange Format
The Comma-Separated Values (CSV) format has been around for a number of years. The CSV format is used to represent tabular data. Each line in the file represents one row in the table. ...
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