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Finally, enter a Report name, call this report Products by Subcategory as in Figure 4-19, and click the
Finish button. The report name is used to name the report definition file in the report project and will be
the title of the report displayed for users in the Report Manager.

Figure 4-19

The Report Designer
Completing the Report Wizard causes the report to be built and the Report Designer to be displayed in
either Layout or Preview mode. The Report Designer has three tabs along the top:

❑ Data: This displays the query designer used in the Report Wizard.

❑ Layout: This is used to create or alter the report design.

❑ Preview: This is used to view the report with data.

Visual Studio 2005 contains several useful designer windows that are automatically hidden by default.
These windows are accessible when you hover the mouse pointer over icons positioned along the left
and right edge of the designer window. As you can see, some of these icons are labeled and some are
not. (You take a closer look at the Toolbox, the Fields, the Solution Explorer, and the Properties designer
windows after this tour.)

The next thing you should see is the actual report in Layout view. The Report Designer is now a compo-
nent of the Microsoft Integrated Development Environment (that is, Business Intelligence Studio or
Visual Studio) and uses many of the windows and tools that are built into the Visual Studio product.