Hands-On Procedure
Preparation
First,
let's create a new Reporting Services project from which to conduct our
practice session.
Create
a Reporting Services Project
To
begin, we will launch Reporting Services' Report Designer, found in Microsoft
Visual Studio .NET 2003.
1.
Click Start.
2.
Navigate to,
and click, the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 shortcut in the Programs
group, as appropriate.
The
equivalent on my PC appears as depicted in Illustration 2.
Visual
Studio .NET 2003 opens
at the Start page.
3.
Select File
--> New from the main menu.
4.
Click Project
from the cascading menu, as shown in Illustration 3.
Illustration 3:
Selecting a New Project
The New
Project dialog appears. Business Intelligence Projects appears in
the Project Types tree, indicating an installation of Reporting
Services.
5.
Click Business Intelligence Projects in the Project Types tree, if necessary.
6.
Click Report
Project in the Templates list.
7.
Type the
following into the Name box, leaving other settings at default:
RS020
8.
Navigate to a
location in which to place the Report Project files.
The New Project
dialog appears, with our input, as depicted 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
Having
created a Report Project, we are ready to proceed with creating
the new report clone.
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