I know, I am not the most experienced RDLC report builder around, and not a hard core Visual Studio user, except for using it is as my client for accessing TFS. Nevertheless I thought I knew my way with VS. Until this time when picking up RDLC report design and opening a RDLC layout in VS 2008, wanting to add some fields to a report.
Adding some fields? Hey, where is the
Website Data Sources pane?
OK, probably the
View menu will help me out:
Nope.
Website menu?
No!
So I meticulously searched all the other drop-down menus:
File,
Edit,
View (once more),
Website (again),
Debug (would that make sense?),
Tools (idem),
Windows,
Help. Help? HELP!
Calm down, Luc. Breath in, br... And there we go again:
File,
Edit,
View,
Website,
Debug,
Tools,
Windows,
Help.
&*(^(@$*(@)_+_
Typically (I think) I am not the kind of person to disturb others with something seemingly so silly. A threshold to take indeed, but
never to old to learn, thus eventually I called upon a colleague who didn't answer straight away. Meanwhile still trying to find it ... and I did!
Data menu!
Data menu???? It wasn't in my ultimate search list above.
Where do you come from? 
Long-story-short: Click somewhere on the
Solution Explorer. And now click somewhere in the
Report.rdlc [Design] screen. See what happens with the menus?
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