Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved Hitchhiker’s Guide to Visual Studio and SQL Server – Innovations in Reporting William R. Vaughn Beta V Corporation

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 2 Author, Mentor, Trainer Hitchhiker’s Guide to Visual Studio and SQL Server (7 th Edition) Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services ADO and ADO.NET Examples and Best Practices For VB (and C#) Programmers Hitchhiker’s Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server Author, Mentor, Trainer Hitchhiker’s Guide to Visual Studio and SQL Server (7 th Edition) Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services ADO and ADO.NET Examples and Best Practices For VB (and C#) Programmers Hitchhiker’s Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server William R. Vaughn

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 3 Agenda What is Reporting Services? What is the ReportViewer Control? What’s the difference and the migration path? How are reports created and managed? Demos…

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 4 Internet Information Server (IIS) Reporting Services Architecture XML Web Service Interface Report Server Report Processor Delivery Targets ( , SharePoint, Custom) Data Processing Data Sources (SQL, OLE DB, XML/A, ODBC, Oracle, Custom) Report Rendering Output Formats HTML, Excel, PDF… SQL Server Catalog SQL Server VS.NET Report Designer Report Manager ReportServer Virtual Directory Security Scheduling & Delivery

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 5 What is the ReportViewer? New UI class for Visual Studio 2005 –No SQL Server or other DBMS dependency –Deployed with Smart Client or ASP.NET application –Application binds ADO.NET DataTable to ReportViewer –Project includes one or more RDLC (XML) Report files –ReportViewer Renders Reports

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 6 Where Can I Get It? Reporting Services –Included in all versions of SQL Server Including SQL Server Express Edition Advanced Services Varying degrees of advanced functionality ReportViewer –Not included in the.NET Framework –Included in all versions of Visual Studio.NET –Visual Basic.NET—Standard or better –Deployment considerations: Self-extracting ReportViewer.exe Run on deployment computer

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 7 Visual Studio 2005 Report Viewer

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 8 ReportViewer – Reporting Modes ReportViewer.Server class –Addresses Reporting Services Server, RDL Report Path ReportViewer.LocalReport class: Addresses –Local RDLC report path –DataSource –Parameters –Reporting options You configure –At design-time, runtime

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 9 What data sources can be used? ReportViewer or Reporting Services sources data from… –Yes… Any.NET Data Source OLE DB, ODBC, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server (any version) Even JET/Access… Stored procedures, Views, CLR code… –ReportViewer sources from … Any IBindingList DataSource (not a DataReader) Data Source Configuration wizard generated TableAdapter DataTable, DataView, DataSet, Array List… –But… Single resultset queries—only first rowset used Second and remaining resultsets are tossed Watch out for stored procedures that return complex resultsets

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 10 How are reports written? RDL Report Designers –Visual Studio 2003, 2005 BI Addin with SQL Server install –Import Access reports –Third-party RDL Report Designers Panorama Cizer Panscopic Proclarity –Crystal Import—only a rumor RDLC Report Designer –Visual Studio 2005 “Report” Designer

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 11 Visual Studio 2005 Business Intelligence Projects

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 12 Report Designer Creates RDL RDL Local Report Renderer Preview Layout

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 13 Reporting Services vs. Report Viewer Visual Studio ReportViewer Control –Create Visual Studio Data Source or populate DataTable (Optionally) Create Data Source TableAdapter Data Source managed by application Query/Report parameters captured/managed by your code –Create RDLC report definition Layout and render on workstation (WYSIWG) Query runs from workstation Visual Studio renderer shows final report –Deploy finished application containing report –Reports launched via application Application launches report (RefreshReport) Alternative rendering to PDF, Excel

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 14 Reporting Services vs. Report Viewer Reporting Services –Renders to HTML (by default) –Exports to a variety of formats…

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 15 Reporting Services vs. Report Viewer Reporting Viewer –Renders to Windows GDI –Exports to Excel, PDF or Print

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 16 Reporting Services vs. Report Viewer Reporting Viewer and Reporting Services HTML reports support –Print and page setup, zoom and find

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 17 Visual Studio Typed Data Source Visual Studio (interactively) creates TableAdapter –DataSource wizard Specifies the ConnectionString One or more SQL query definitions Generates strongly typed TableAdapter Generates Fill and/or GetTable methods –Bind to ReportViewer Inserts Fill calls into Form_Load –Form or control events invoke Fill Populates strongly typed DataTable

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 18 Visual Studio Typed Data Source Bind to TableAdapter Reset ReportParameters collection

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 19 ADO.NET Untyped Data Source Hand-code, populate ADO.NET DataTable –Create Connection, DataAdapter, SQL for (every) query –Capture query and report parameters –Build ReportParameters collection –ReportViewer.LocalReport.SetParameters –Execute Fill –Set ReportViewer.LocalReport.DataSources –Call ReportViewer.RefreshReport

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 20 Managing ReportViewer DataSource Use Task menu Use Report DataSource dialog

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 21 How are Parameters Managed? Reporting Services –DataSource, queries and parameters managed by Reporting Services –Report UI (browser) exposes query and (optionally) parameters –Definitions, defaults, criteria coded in report RDL –Defaults, other parameter aspects managed by report DBA –Special-case parameter management requires code

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 22 Managing ReportViewer Parameters ReportViewer –Connection and query code managed by your code –All parameters (query and report) managed by your code Write your own prompting code Manage pick lists, range checks, criteria checks ReportParameters collection set before rendering

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 23 Managing ReportViewer Parameters Set Parameters and Execute Query Address DataTable Set Report Parameters

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 24 ReportViewer Control Binding to Data Source Configuration wizard TableAdapter

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 25 ReportViewer FAQ Requires Visual Studio 2005 (Standard or better) –But not SQL Server Can bind to Reporting Services 2005 reports –Or “local” reports –But not to Reporting Services 2000 reports Freely distributable (no need for SQL Server license)

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 26 Summary Reports broadcast corporate information –To the LAN or the WAN –Keep security in mind Think SSL Avoid SSPI credentials Leverage common report definitions (RDL and RDLc)

Copyright © 2005, 2006 Beta V Corporation All rights reserved 27 For more information Visit –Offers premium content for book owners Visit ISBN: Pages: 768 Includes DVD with over 2.5GB of tutorial videos, sample reports

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