Formatting a Report (Reporting Services)

Based on the above example ( how to create a report ), I show how we can "format" that report for a more professional presentation using visual basic reporting services from. net.

Open the report on which will work, will be more or less like this:

The first thing to do is see if we have seen the two toolbars you need to format the report, they are: "Borders of the report" and "Format of the report." If they are not visible can enable from View / Toolbars.

To change the color of a table cell, select the cell and deploy the window background color from the Format toolbar of the report. Here we atodos web colors we use normally in windows forms.

We can also apply formatting to any cell edge of the table from the Borders toolbar of the report.

We can apply the font to multiple cells at once by selecting multiple cells and apply the formatting.

It is very useful option to merge cells. Select more than one cell in the same row and from the contextual menu (the one that opens when you press click the right mouse button) select the Merge Cells option.

For any text we want to appear on the report used a text box.

By default, when placed on the table a number field, this is aligned to the right. If you wish this can be changed using the Format Bar. In our case we use the Format function to format the number to the price. Price Botónderecho the cell and select Expression ...

The Edit Expression box is full, I recommend you give it a look, we use the Format function to format "Fixed" we monstrará numbers with two decimal places.

So you should see the finished report:

Hope this helps and do not forget that this is a base, is up to you to enhance these tools put much dedication and talent.