When starting a reports project in Visual Stuido, is there any way to use one of the Shared Data Sources on the Report Server?
Like maybe connect to the Report Server and choose a Shared Data Source that already exists on the server and write your new reports against it?
Right now all I know how to do is right-click and choose Add -> Add Existing Item and pick one of my *.RDS files.
I'm about to be joined on this project by a couple of other people and so I need to figure out if I should put the .RDS files in a shared network folder or SourceSafe or something like this... it seems like a "dirty" solution considering that the connection information is available on the Report Server... it sure would be nice to be able to download them into new projects rather than risk one of the other guys accidentally mauling the shared connection.
I do want to use shared connections rather than embedding them in each report because I think it will be easier to move them from dev to prod.
Any/All advice is appreciated.
Like maybe connect to the Report Server and choose a Shared Data Source that already exists on the server and write your new reports against it?
Right now all I know how to do is right-click and choose Add -> Add Existing Item and pick one of my *.RDS files.
I'm about to be joined on this project by a couple of other people and so I need to figure out if I should put the .RDS files in a shared network folder or SourceSafe or something like this... it seems like a "dirty" solution considering that the connection information is available on the Report Server... it sure would be nice to be able to download them into new projects rather than risk one of the other guys accidentally mauling the shared connection.
I do want to use shared connections rather than embedding them in each report because I think it will be easier to move them from dev to prod.
Any/All advice is appreciated.