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Chapter 17: Reporting for Duty, Sir! A Look At Reporting Services<br />

Figure 17-1<br />

If your Visual Studio environment is still in its default configuration, you should see the Solution Explorer<br />

on the top-right side. Right-click Data Sources and choose Add New Data Source, as shown in Figure 17-2.<br />

Figure 17-2<br />

This will probably (unless you’ve already been here before and checked the “Don’t show me this page<br />

again” box) bring you up to a Welcome dialog box for the Data Source Wizard. Click Next to get to the<br />

start of the meaty stuff — the data source selection page of the Data Source Wizard. There is, however,<br />

one problem; we don’t have any data sources as yet (as we see in Figure 17-3).<br />

It probably goes without saying that, without any existing data connections to choose from, we really<br />

have no choice but to click New.<br />

The first time I saw this next dialog, I was mildly surprised to see that it was a different new connection<br />

dialog than had been used repeatedly in the Management Studio; nonetheless, it does contain the same<br />

basic elements, just in a slightly different visual package. (In short, don’t worry if it looks a little different.)<br />

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