Professional SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

SQL Server Reporting Services is the customizable reporting solution for report designers and programmers. This hands-on guide will get you up to speed quickly so you can design, deploy, manage, and even customize reporting solutions. You can create powerful reports without programming knowledge and extend reporting solutions using VB, C#, and ASP.NET.Packed with detailed examples of building reports, designing report solutions, and developing deployment strategies for interacting with various platforms, this book prepares you to take full advantage of this revolutionary tool. Plus, you'll learn how to extend practically every feature of Reporting Services by implementing your own security architecture or adding custom data access.What you will learn from this bookDetails of programming reports and report scriptingAdvanced report design, including drill-down reports, nested lists, drill-through, links, and dynamic contentHigh-level strategies for business and support systemsRendering reports using .NET code, .NET IO namespace classes, and URL rendering deployment strategies to handle hardware, software, and platform considerations, licensing issues, and scaling optionsHow to design reports for mobile servicesVarious tools used to define data sources and semantic metadata modelsHow to use parameters and expressions to define creative report solutionsAdvanced object-oriented programming techniques, with examples in C# and VB 2005.Who this book is forThis book is for report designers, developers, administrators, and business professionals interested in learning the advanced functionality, report server administration, and security issues of SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services.Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.