Pro SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services

CHAPTER 3  INTRODUCTION TO REPORTING SERVICES DESIGN WITH SQL SERVER DATA TOOLS

Figure 3-13. IntelliSense: Assigning an expression

Summary

At this point, we have only scratched the surface of what the development environment has to offer. In
this chapter, you were introduced to the development environment and some of the basic elements of
Reporting Services design. You learned that each report consists of defined elements based on a defined
schema in the RDL, which gives SSRS the advantage of standardization. We covered some of the report
objects that make up reports such as Data Sources and Datasets. In Chapters 4 and 5, you will learn
about all of the objects that will be used to display or represent data returned by our datasets such as the
Textbox, Rectangles, and Data Regions like Tablix, List, and Matrix.