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eXerCISe 2-1. preparING the SOLUtION FILeS
in this exercise, you add the downloadable book files to your C: drive. You then create a blank visual Studio
solution to hold Bi solution documents, and connect to the files you downloaded within the new solution.
This step is the foundation of all your future exercises and must be completed for future exercises to work
properly.
Later in this chapter, you will add SSiS, SSAS, and SSRS projects to this visual Studio solution. Figure
numbers provide hints for most steps.
Install the Book Files
The files for this exercise, as well as all of the exercises throughout this topic, are available in the
downloadable topic content and need to be installed on your computer before you can continue.
1.
if you have not done so, download the book files from the Apress website. These
files are in a zipped format.
2.
Create a folder on your
C:\
drive called
_BookFiles
and unzip the downloadable
files into it.
Each operating system unzips files in a different manner; therefore, we are not including step-by-step
instructions on how to unzip these files. Just make sure that the book files are on the root of your
C:\
drive
using the name
_BookFiles
. we strongly recommend you use this name, because we continually reference
it in the topic.
Once unzipped, this folder includes all the files and projects you need to complete each exercise within this
topic.
Create a Folder for all BI Solutions
we want to have one place where all of the Bi solutions you create in this topic are stored, so let's create one
now.
1. inside the
_BookFiles
folder, locate the
Chapter02Files
folder and open it.
2. Find a subfolder called
_BISolutions
and use windows Explorer to copy this
folder to the root of
C:\
drive, as shown in Figure
2-6
. (To open windows Explorer,
access your computer's Start menu, and click Computer. in the left column select
Local Disk (C:). On the right, where all of your
C:\
files are listed, paste the entire
_BISolutions
folder here.)
You now have a second folder on your hard drive called
C:\_BISolutions
.
