Designing and Developing Reports in ASP.NET 2.0 - Displaying the report using the ReportViewer control

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Up to now, we created the data set and designed the report.  Now it is time to view the report on a web page.  Let us proceed with the following steps one by one to view the report.

• Double click on "default.aspx" to open it.
• Drag and drop the "ReportViewer" control from the toolbox.
  
  
  
  
• From the smart tag of the "ReportViewer" control, select "SalesReport.rdlc" from the drop down.
  
  
  
• At this moment, you can observe that the designer automatically creates an "ObjectDataSource" to bind.
  
  
• You can go to the properties window of the ReportViewer control and play with different settings.
• Now, you can press F5 to execute the solution. You will be prompted for the "Web.config" modification for debugging, to which you respond by clicking on "OK."
• The output must be similar to the following:
  
  

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