Developer's Guide to Reporting Services 2005
This book is designed as an introduction for anyone who wants to learn how to design, deploy and integrate reports using SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, the .NET Framework and either ASP.NET Web Forms or .NET Windows Forms applications. Reporting is a key component of every business application, and every developer should know how to create reports, integrate those reports into a .NET application and manage existing reports. SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services is an excellent platform for meeting a wide variety of reporting needs. The purpose of this book is to show readers how to create and manage reports used with real-world business applications.
Goals of this Book
By the end of this book, you will have learned the basics of how to design, test, deploy and manage reports. In addition you will learn to integrate your reports into .NET applications. In this book you will learn the following:
- How to install & configure Reporting Services for development
- How to create, design and deploy reports
- How to design reports to take advantage of advanced features
- How to use report server URL access
- How to use the Web Forms report viewer
- How to use the Windows Forms report viewer
- How to use the Reporting Services web service
- How to administer Reporting Services
Benefits of Reading this Book
After reading this book, you will understand what is necessary to create and integrate your reports into custom business applications. If you started from scratch, it would take you over 30 hours of work to develop the classes that are included with this book!
Level: Beginner to Intermediate Programmer or DBA
# of Pages: 280