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36. Run the application again using the Start button to bring up Form1 ,
as follows:

37. The Refresh button will be highlighted as shown, and to the right of it,
in order are, Print , Print Layout , Page Setup (of the printer), and Export
buttons. Click on the Export button to show the Export formats Excel ,
PDF , and Word .
38. Verify that you can export them to each of these formats, by choosing
them in turn. Note that Adobe reader can convert PDF to Excel or Word
quite easily with a click.
39. In Solution Explorer , click on Form1.Designer.Vb and you can see the
coding necessary to achieve this display.

This concludes the hands-on exercise 2.5

Hands-on exercise 2.6 - creating a report
using Report Viewer Control for the Web
We will be creating a Web project, which displays a report in one of its Web pages.
A Report Viewer Control is used, which gets its data from the Northwind database
on Kailua SQL Server 2012.

1. Start Visual Studio 2012 from its shortcut All Programs | Microsoft Visual

Studio 2012 | Visual Studio 2012 or the executable at %ProgramFiles%\
Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe from the
command line.