Data points: Report Controls In SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

摘要

Reporting has always been one of the dark arts of development. The tools typically seem to do just enough to get you to a certain point, then leave you to find workarounds to solve more complex issues. Fortunately, reporting has evolved quite a bit over the past few years. SQL Server™ 2005 Reporting Services lets you embed code in a report that can be accessed by various properties of that report, and it takes this concept a step further by allowing you to access external .NET libraries. It also offers a few techniques to integrate expressions and .NET code within a report, providing access to business logic and XML files.