What this book covers

Chapter 1, Understanding and Creating Simple SSRS Reports, helps you to walk through the basis of SSRS reports and create a simple report using queries. This chapter will also help you understand the basic characteristics of reports.

Chapter 2, Enhancing Your Report – Visualization and Interaction, covers how to enhance the visualization and interaction of reports through parameters, creating data regions and charts, and formatting the reports.

Chapter 3, A Report Programming Model, helps you build the SSRS reports programmatically inside Dynamics AX and add the validations programmatically.

Chapter 4, Report Programming Model – RDP, helps you to develop the advanced reports using the data provider framework. In this chapter, we will create a report using RDP classes.

Chapter 5, Integrating External Datasources, covers how the SSRS reports can be extended to include other data sources or through the integration framework.

Chapter 6, Beyond Tabular Reports, helps you understand the other formats of reports such as using matrices and charts. This book also covers the interesting components of reports such as gauges, rectangles, and lists.

Chapter 7, Upgrading and Analyzing Reports, discusses the approaches for moving the MorphX-based reports into SSRS reports and also covers the patterns of reports.

Chapter 8, Troubleshooting and Other Advanced Recipes, dives into the performance and troubleshooting of SSRS reports. This will also introduce the log viewer through which you can analyze the report usage and its log.

Chapter 9, Developing Reports with Complex Databases, discusses developing the SSRS reports that have complex data and how to drive that data into reports using maps, views, and queries.

Chapter 10, Unit Test Class and Best Practices Used for Reports, helps you create the unit test classes for a report, which will help you test the business logic being written to develop reports. It will also tell you best practices to be followed when developing the reports.