Creating a simple precision design
Precision designs are the most flexible and creative design in SSRS reporting in which you can design your report in a flexible manner. Precision design is a report design created by the SQL Report Designer in Visual Studio. It is like a pre-defined format, in which you know the format of the report and are designing it according to that format. Precision designs are flexible and offer abundant options to customize your report by allowing you to decide the location, font, and much more.
Getting ready
This recipe will use the RDP created in the Creating a simple RDP report recipe to create a precision design report.
How to do it…
Open Visual Studio and create a reporting project. Add a report and name it
PktInterestCalcReport
.Add a dataset and change the property Data Source Type to Report Data Provider. Click on the Query property button to view the list of the RDP classes.
Select the RDP class created and click on Next to add the fields. Expand the dataset...