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How To: Customize a Report in <strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Studio</strong> <strong>Team</strong><br />

<strong>Foundation</strong> <strong>Server</strong><br />

Applies To<br />

• Microsoft® <strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Studio</strong>® 2005 <strong>Team</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong> <strong>Server</strong> (TFS)<br />

• Microsoft <strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Studio</strong> <strong>Team</strong> System (VSTS)<br />

• Microsoft® SQL <strong>Server</strong> Reporting Services<br />

Summary<br />

This How To article walks you through the process of customizing an existing report and<br />

then publishing it to the reporting portal in TFS.<br />

Contents<br />

• Objectives<br />

• Overview<br />

• Summary of Steps<br />

• Before You Begin<br />

• Step 1 – Create a New Reporting Project<br />

• Step 2 – Export the Report You Want to Customize<br />

• Step 3 – Create the Data Sources<br />

• Step 4 – Add the Report to Your Project<br />

• Step 5 – Modify the Report<br />

• Step 6 – Deploy the Report to Your <strong>Team</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong> <strong>Server</strong><br />

• Step 7 – Test the Report<br />

• Additional Resources<br />

Objective<br />

• Create a reporting project in <strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Studio</strong>.<br />

• Customize an existing report to meet your needs.<br />

• Publish the new report to the report server.<br />

Overview<br />

The reports that ship <strong>with</strong> VSTS are SQL <strong>Server</strong> Reporting Services reports. You can<br />

amend these reports or create your own custom reports by using the SQL <strong>Server</strong> 2005<br />

Reporting Services Designer inside <strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Studio</strong> (Business Intelligence <strong>Development</strong><br />

<strong>Studio</strong>), which ships <strong>with</strong> the SQL <strong>Server</strong> 2005 client tools.<br />

Customizing a report allows you to add functionality to an existing report <strong>with</strong>out having<br />

to build a new report from scratch. If a report you need is similar to one that already<br />

exists, you can customize the existing report in order to save time. To customize an<br />

existing report, it must be exported from the report server, added to an existing report

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