Chapter 7. Working with report server projects

The focus of the authoring phase of the reporting life cycle is the production of the report definition files that will later be centrally stored on the report server. As you learned in Chapter 5, you can choose to use either Report Builder or Report Designer to author report definition files. However, Report Designer is the tool more commonly used by professional report developers for a variety of reasons, including the ability to manage groups of reports as projects. In this chapter, you learn about report server projects and the files that you manage within a report project. You also explore the Report Designer commands available to use with report server projects and learn how to configure project ...

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