CHAPTER 4 LAYING OUT A REPORT Note To access the full RDL file from within BIDS, select View with the Design tab open, and then Code from
the drop-down menu. If you are working in Visual Studio 2010, press F7 and use Shift+F7 to toggle between Code
and Designer modes.
The completed report for the List object is called Lists.rdl in the Pro_SSRS project.Implementing a Textbox
The Textbox control had a major upgrade from SSRS 2005 to 2008, but nothing has changed since.
Thankfully, it now supports rich formatting for text, not to be confused with Rich Text Formatting. What
is possible now was not possible, or at least very difficult, to do in SSRS 2005. You can now format text
blocks individually inside a single textbox as well as combine fields from datasets using placeholders
within the textbox. This is all accomplished via HTML tags that can be imported as expression values for
the textbox itself or contained within a dataset and rendered with the report.