How to view the XML code related to reports
Behind the scenes, the report files (the files with the RDL extension) are really just specialized XML. In this recipe, we'll see how to view them.
Getting ready
In order to make demonstrating the recipe easier, we'll make a minor change to one of the reports. First, open the Report 03-03 Nested Data Regions report.
Click on the report title at the top of the report, which bears the same name as the report.
Go to the Properties window, scroll down, and find the Name property. Change it to ReportTitle:
Figure 3.35
Save the report and close it.
How to do it...
Right-click on the
Report 03-03 Nested Data Regionsfile.In the menu, select View Code.
You will now see the XML behind the report. At over 650 lines, the listing is too much to reproduce here, but let's look at a small piece. Scroll down to the section that begins with <ReportSections> (in the figure below, it is on line 42, but yours may vary):
Figure 3.36
Note line 46,
Textbox, which now...
