Reporting has always been one of the dark arts of development. The tools typically seem to do just enough to get you to a certain point, then leave you to find workarounds to solve more complex issues. Fortunately, reporting has evolved quite a bit over the past few years. SQL Server™ 2005 Reporting Services lets you embed code in a report that can be accessed by various properties of that report, and it takes this concept a step further by allowing you to access external .NET libraries. It also offers a few techniques to integrate expressions and .NET code within a report, providing access to business logic and XML files.
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