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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
- Difference 5 - Using Report Parts in Report Builder (this blog)
- Other Differences for Report Builder
Posted by Andy Brown on 07 November 2011
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Difference 5 - Using Report Parts in Report Builder
Report Builder 3.0 allows you to insert Report Parts into reports:
This feature has no equivalent in BIDS!
To do this, you must first publish the report part:
To publish report parts, click on the icon in the top left of the Report Builder window.
A Report Part is a collection of report items grouped together, which you can reuse again and again. As such this is a good idea - which makes one wonder why it isn't available in BIDS.
- 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
- Difference 5 - Using Report Parts in Report Builder (this blog)
- Other Differences for Report Builder