Creating the Report Project and the Report Files
We will begin a basic
report, based upon a table in our data source. For this exercise, we will use
the AdventureWorks2000 OLTP database that ships / installs with Reporting
Services.
Creating the Report Project
First, we will launch Reporting
Services' Report Designer, found in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003.
1.
Click Start.
2.
Navigate to the Microsoft
Visual Studio .NET 2003 in the Programs group, as appropriate. The
equivalent on my PC appears as shown in Illustration 1.
3.
Select File -->
New from the main menu.
4.
Click Project from the
cascading menu, as shown in Illustration 2.
Illustration
2: Selecting a New Project
The New Project
dialog appears, as depicted in Illustration 3. We note that Business
Intelligence Projects appears in the Project Types tree, indicating
an installation of Reporting Services (the folder was added by the
installation of Reporting Services, as it established the Report Designer
in Visual Studio .NET).
Illustration
3: The New Projects Dialog, with Business Intelligence Projects as a Project
Type
5.
Click Business Intelligence Projects in the Project Types list.
6.
Click Report Project in
the Templates list.
7.
Navigate to a location in which
to place the Report Project files.
8.
Type the following into the Name
box, leaving other settings at default:
RS002-1
The New Project dialog appears,
with our addition, as shown in Illustration 4.
Illustration
4: The New Projects Dialog, with Addition
Our new project
appears in the Solution Explorer (upper right corner of the Visual
Studio .NET interface), as we see in Illustration 5.
Illustration 5:
The New Project Appears in the Solution Explorer
We have now created a Report
Project, and are ready to proceed with creating a Report File.
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