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Report Builder and BIDS (the Visual Studio add-in for creating Reporting Services reports) are essentially the same underneath their very different looking skins. This blog lists the small number of differences.
- Report Builder vs. Reporting Services - Differences
- Report Builder Difference 1 - Look and Feel
- Difference 2 - Report Builder 3.0 has more wizards
- Difference 3 - Creating Datasets in Report Builder
- Difference 4 - Expression Intellisense in Report Builder (this blog)
- Difference 5 - Using Report Parts in Report Builder
- Other Differences for Report Builder
Posted by Andy Brown on 07 November 2011
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Difference 4 - Expression Intellisense in Report Builder
Weirdly, Report Builder 3.0 doesn't have intellisense built into the expression builder. So here's an example of an expression in BIDS:
Starting to create an expression in Visual Studio
Here's exactly the same expression in Report Builder 3.0:
Creating an expression in Report Builder
Given that everything else is the same, this seems odd - if anyone knows the reason, please let me know! The net - and surely undesired - effect is that you need to know how to create formulae much better if you're using Report Builder.
- Report Builder vs. Reporting Services - Differences
- Report Builder Difference 1 - Look and Feel
- Difference 2 - Report Builder 3.0 has more wizards
- Difference 3 - Creating Datasets in Report Builder
- Difference 4 - Expression Intellisense in Report Builder (this blog)
- Difference 5 - Using Report Parts in Report Builder
- Other Differences for Report Builder