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A tutorial for designing reports in Visual Studio 2010?

Okay, I've done the following:

  1. Created a blank form and added a reportviewer control to it.
  2. Created a dataset, bound it to a database table.
  3. Clicked the Smart Tag on the reportviewer to design a new report.
  4. Chose my dataset as the datasource for the report.

After I finished the above and ran the program, I had a nice little report showing on my screen. Great! However, it's pretty ugly. I want to know how to spruce it up, add charts, etc. Is there a tutorial available online that will show a user how to get the most out of the report design tool in Visual Studio 2010? Perhaps something that takes the user from the ground up designing a report?

Thanks for any advice!

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Kevin Avatar asked Feb 24 '12 03:02

Kevin


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This seems pretty extensive and has lots of images and walk throughs

This MSDN page also seems like something you are looking for.

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northpole Avatar answered Sep 23 '22 23:09

northpole