Introduction

Being a report developer, what we really need is an environment that helps us to make great reporting solutions using modern techniques and well-equipped tools. If the tool makes report design complex and hard-to-manage, then output of the effort will not be as good as everyone expects. It will not only discourage us from continuing to use the tool, but also force us to go for another tool. Knowing this, Microsoft has been maintaining its standard and it has done it again, giving us more enhancements on the toolset that we use for creating reports.

End users always prefer to see a pleasant output on required information. They consider the appearance of the output, whether it is properly structured, whether the right visual element has been used, and whether it supports the analysis they need to do on it. Microsoft has not forgotten the end-user-experience; considering the importance of it, just like the improvement on development, many enhancements have been done in various...