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A common requirement for Reporting Services reports is to colour alternate rows. This blog gives two approaches, one of which uses custom assemblies.
- Alternating Colours in Reporting Services Tables (this blog)
- Alternate Colours using Conditional Formatting
- Alternate Colours using a Custom Assembly
Posted by Andy Brown on 03 August 2012
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Alternating Colours in Reporting Services Tables
This blog shows how you can create alternate colours in a report, using a simple way (which sometimes works), and then a more complicated (but more reliable) way. I'm intending it as a practical example of the use of custom assemblies.

The effect we're trying to achieve.
The rest of this blog is split into 2 parts: a simple way to create alternate colours using conditional formatting, and a more complicated way using a custom assembly.
- Alternating Colours in Reporting Services Tables (this blog)
- Alternate Colours using Conditional Formatting
- Alternate Colours using a Custom Assembly