Chapter 6. Report Designer

In This Chapter

• Two Main Report Designers from Microsoft

• Visual Studio Haves Versus Have Nots

• Solution, Project, File Hierarchy

• Generating Reports with Visual Studio

Report Designer is the main tool Microsoft provides for developers and tech-savvy information analysts to design and develop reports. This chapter begins by discussing Report Designer and how it gets installed either through Visual Studio or SQL Server Business Development Studio. Then, you use Report Designer to author your first report.