SQL Server Reporting Services is the customizable reportingsolution for report designers and programmers. This hands-on guidewill get you up to speed quickly so you can design, deploy, manage,and even customize reporting solutions. You can create powerfulreports without programming knowledge and extend reportingsolutions using VB, C#, and ASP.NET.
Packed with detailed examples of building reports, designingreport solutions, and developing deployment strategies forinteracting with various platforms, this book prepares you to takefull advantage of this revolutionary tool. Plus, you'll learn howto extend practically every feature of Reporting Services byimplementing your own security architecture or adding custom dataaccess.
What you will learn from this book
* Details of programming reports and report scripting
* Advanced report design, including drill-down reports, nestedlists, drill-through, links, and dynamic content
* High-level strategies for business and support systems
* Rendering reports using .NET code, .NET IO namespace classes,and URL rendering deployment strategies to handle hardware,software, and platform considerations, licensing issues, andscaling options
* How to design reports for mobile services
* Various tools used to define data sources and semantic metadatamodels
* How to use parameters and expressions to define creative reportsolutions
* Advanced object-oriented programming techniques, with examplesin C# and VB 2005.
Who this book is for
This book is for report designers, developers, administrators,and business professionals interested in learning the advancedfunctionality, report server administration, and security issues ofSQL Server 2005 Reporting Services.
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by workingprogrammers to meet the real-world needs of programmers,developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, theyaddress the issues technology professionals face every day. Theyprovide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in newtechnologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.
Paul Turley
Client/Server Technologies Client/Server-Technologie Computer Science Database & Data Warehousing Technologies Datenbanken u. Data Warehousing Informatik SQL Server