Newbee question on Reporting Service

Hi,
I am new to Reporting Service, I came from Crystal Reports background.
Have 2 questions:
(1) The Reports cretated via report designer are not object oriented? They
are not exposed as classes, my concern is that I can not manipulate the
reports programatically.
(2) The Reports do not exposed events? This might sounds related to question
(1), but even in non OO world, reports expose events too, say MS Access.
TIAHi,
Were you able to find out if the reports expose any events? The 'OnInit'
event is the only one I know of. So are there any events similar to MS Access?
Thanks,
Honesto J Manlig
"Danny Ni" wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to Reporting Service, I came from Crystal Reports background.
> Have 2 questions:
> (1) The Reports cretated via report designer are not object oriented? They
> are not exposed as classes, my concern is that I can not manipulate the
> reports programatically.
> (2) The Reports do not exposed events? This might sounds related to question
> (1), but even in non OO world, reports expose events too, say MS Access.
>
> TIA
>
>

Newbe Questions

I am familier with crystal and just starting SSRS.

How do you set the report to print in Landscape?

How do you like combine two fields into a label with some additional text added it to build your custom label?

Salameh,

If you are developing in Visual Studio/Business Intelligence Dev. Studio, you can set the layout of the report by changing the Page width/height to be 11 by 8.5 instead of 8.5 by 11. You can do this in the properties window, or you can right-click below the report and select properties, and change the dimensions on the Layout tab.

To combine two fields with additional text, you could do something like the following...

="Field A is " & Fields!FieldA.Value & ", and Field B is " & Fields!FieldB.Value & "."

Hope that helps