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Report Data Sources Dialog Box (Visual Studio Report Designer)

Use the Report Data Sources dialog box to explicitly add and remove project data source information in a report definition file. If you copied a report definition from another project, you can use this dialog box to remove data sources that do not exist in your current project.

Options

  • Project data sources
    Displays a list of data sources that are available in your project. Valid data sources include data tables and Business objects.

    Data sources that are empty or undefined do not appear in this list.

  • Add to Report
    Click Add to Report to add the project data source you selected to the report definition.
  • Report data sources
    Displays the data sources that are specified in the report definition.
  • Remove
    Click Remove to remove the schema information from the report definition file.
  • Rename
    Click Rename to update the report definition file with a renamed data set.
  • Refresh All
    Click Refresh All to synchronize the data source schema information in the report definition (.rdlc) to the data source information in the project.

See Also

Concepts

Creating Data Sources for a Report
Updating and Rebinding Data Source References (Visual Studio Report Designer)
ReportViewer Controls (Visual Studio)
ReportViewer Web Server and Windows Forms Controls

Other Resources

Report Designer User Interface Reference (Visual Studio)